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BYTON partners with Aiqudo for Voice AI in its EVs

Green Car Congress

Aiqudo’s Voice AI platform will voice-enable actions in native apps within the BYTON ecosystem as well as intelligently launch app actions on personal mobile devices in the vehicle. Aiqudo’s Action Kit functionality will be offered to app developers through the BYTON developer portal.

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This IEEE Society’s Secret to Boosting Student Membership

Cars That Think

The society recently launched several programs to engage them, including career fairs, travel grants, and networking opportunities with researchers. The students had a hand in creating a welcome kit for conference attendees. Job fairs and travel grants Several new initiatives have been rolled out at the society’s flagship conferences.

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An Easy EV Conversion Kit For People

Open Source Civic EV Kit

After spending the past year and a half converting a Porsche 914 to an electric vehicle, I decided to expand my horizons by designing an open-source electric vehicle (EV) conversion kit for a commonly used car. There are already commercially available kits with excellent, detailed instructions for how to convert a vehicle.

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Daimler invests in the start-up Anagog; smartphone-based behavior analysis with no need for backend server

Green Car Congress

The JedAI SDK (Software Development Kit) uses the multiple sensors in modern smartphones to detect anonymously the mobility status and to understand the activity context of users. This app helps motorists decide whether it makes sense for them personally to switch to an electric car or hybrid.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear.

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“Software-Defined Car” project seeks to develop standardized rules and processes; SofDCar

Green Car Congress

The three-year SofDCar project is funded with a grant of some €43 million by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). —Professor Ralf Reussner from KASTEL – KIT’s Institute of Information Security and Dependability. —Professor Michael Weyrich.

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Optimistic EVs – the cure for range anxiety | Opinion

EV Central

In that time the big, stylish and reasonably spacious Mercedes did all kinds of duty, from ferrying multiple children to tipsy adults, picking up an electric drum kit and keeping it hidden in the boot until Christmas Eve and transporting unfeasible amounts of alcohol.

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