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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

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Your brother raises the idea of remembering Dad at his best through a startup “digital immortality” program called 4evru. You decide, after some months of interacting with the 4evru’s version of your father, that while you are somewhat glad to learn who your father truly was, you’re mourning the loss of the person you thought you knew.

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How Robots Can Help Us Act and Feel Younger

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One is within the home for an older person who needs help, and the other is for the rest of society—for younger people who need to be more productive to support a greater number of older people. Well, one robotic idea is to just cook meals for the person. How do we help that person have a truly better quality of life?

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Mercedes-Benz launches new private car-sharing scheme: Croove

Green Car Congress

The peer-to-peer car-sharing platform is another example of a CASE strategy project that has advanced from idea to implementation. The relevant app will be available to download from December from the Apple iTunes store at first. The Croove scheme will be launched in Munich to begin with and is open to any brand of vehicle.

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

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So datafication is really, I think, quite straightforward in the sense that it’s just kind of trying to capture the idea that all of our daily behaviors and thoughts are being captured and stored as data in a computer or in computers and servers all over the world. Are they the person who has died? Are they people?

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Tesla starts using Cybertruck as a mobile billboard – literally

Baua Electric

Now, you can argue that it is still useful to have the Cybertruck in showrooms for reservation holders to come see it in person before moving forward with their orders. Furthermore, the automaker brought Cybertruck on a tour in China and Japan, where we have no idea when or even if the Cybertruck will be available.

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Tesla Product Design Director shares critique of Ford’s “fancy” L2 chargers

Teslarati

Interestingly enough, the middle cutout of Ford’s EV chargers seemed to be only for aesthetic purposes, as its long charging cables were stored on the side. . Verdura is a giant in the product design sphere , winning some of the industry’s most prestigious awards such as the Red Dot, IDEA, and Good Design over his tenure. .

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