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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. Friends of his who were working on such projects at Google in Mountain View, Calif., Kim saw a role for his expertise in the endeavor—he has a Ph.D.

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Tesla hosts Thailand PM at Fremont Factory ahead of potential partnership

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During a September meeting with Musk , the Prime Minister said Tesla would be “looking into an EV manufacturing facility” in Thailand, among several other high-profile investments from major companies like Google and Microsoft.

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Tesla will have ‘good news’ in Mexico, foreign minister teases

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The company has been rumored to be looking for suitable land in Canada, South Korea, Indonesia, and Mexico for some time. Tesla will soon announce “good news” in Mexico, where it has been rumored to be mulling locations for its next automotive production plant, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Tuesday.

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Study using satellite data finds rate of urban growth much greater than previously thought

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The researchers used Landsat imagery to map annual changes in urban extent at a 30 m resolution for the period 1985 to 2015 on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform. —Liu et al. A much greater number of cities accounted for the bulk of US urban growth.

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Thomson Reuters report finds established auto industry companies, not Silicon Valley, leading development of autonomous driving tech

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Toyota (Japan) is the overall global leader in autonomous automotive innovation, followed by Bosch (Germany), Denso (Japan), Hyundai (South Korea) and GM (US). Google ranks 19 th in the world in this area, followed by Ford at number 20. To the contrary, automotive bellwethers are the ones in the driver’s seat.

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Belgium or Brooklyn? 5 Bold New Places to Eat in Brussels.

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Mr. Degeimbre was born in South Korea but adopted by a Belgian family as a baby. Nyyó The son of Vietnamese immigrants, Linh Nam grew up in Liège and worked for Google in New York for seven years before returning to Belgium and opening Nyyó , a minimalist restaurant with cocoa-colored walls and rattan suspension lights.

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Hyundai launches Sonata PHEV; 22-mile electric range

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Sonata Plug-in Hybrid will be built at the Asan, South Korea plant and will go on sale in select markets later this year. Plus, users can search for points of interest using Google with voice or text and have the directions when they start their Sonata PHEV. The PHEV is fitted with a 9.8

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