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Pete Buttigieg Slams EV Luddites

CleanTechnica EVs

On the path of new tech adoption, different types of people adopt the new tech at different times. Some need more time to get used to the idea, while others jump in quickly and eagerly, perhaps even well before a “normal person” even hears about the new tech.

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Four Startups Aim to Change the Climate Tech Game

Cars That Think

That’s what John Hennessy, Stanford professor (and former president) and chairman of Alphabet , told attendees at the Stanford Global Energy Forum , held in-person this month on the Stanford University campus. SkyCool’s technology as pitched seemed like science fiction to me.

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

Cars That Think

Estrin, a computer science professor at Cornell Tech , in New York City, founded the school’s Public Interest Tech Initiative to give students that opportunity. Her sister Judy is a successful tech entrepreneur, and her other sister, Margo, is a medical doctor. The award is sponsored by IBM.

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

Cars That Think

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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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

Back then, Warnock already had a rough idea how to “Print Anything.” It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. And the right person was Apple founder Steven Jobs, who invented the first, hoped for the second, and told Adobe to tough out the third.

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

Cars That Think

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. Strickland: So how do you define the digital afterlife industry ?

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Weaponized Robots Letter Calls for Policy, Tech Fixes

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There have been a bunch of high-profile examples of robot misuse recently (that we’re not going to link to), and the companies building the robots being misused have taken it personally—as they should, because those misused robots are very easy to identify.

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