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DEED advertising pays off

Electric Auto Association

The members of EAA San Joaquin Valley (EAASJV), largely held back from holding in-person events since the chapter’s founding in 2019 due to the pandemic, were determined to make their 2022 Drive Electric Earth Day event a rousing success. We shared ideas on how to do that; personally, I read a book about marketing.”

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

Green Car Congress

Not long after launch though, there will also be an Android version in the Google Play Store, along with a desktop website for booking a vehicle. When Croove is first launched, it will be possible to either collect the vehicle in person or pay extra for a pickup and delivery service.

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The Heart and the Chip: What Could Go Wrong?

Cars That Think

Legendary MIT roboticist Daniela Rus has published a new book called The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots. There is a robotics revolution underway,” Rus says in the book’s introduction, “one that is already causing massive changes in our society and in our lives.”

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SEC issues cease-and-desist order against split-cycle engine developer Scuderi Group for violations of Securities Act

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Between 2008 and 2011, a period when Scuderi Group sold more than $75 million in securities despite not obtaining any revenue, Mr. Scuderi authorized more than $3.2 Scuderi Group sold securities pursuant to these PPMs from 2008 to 2012, raising approximately $75 million. million in Scuderi Group spending on such purposes.

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What Texas Instruments’ Little Professor Can Teach Us

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The iconic calculator features the face of a mustachioed man wearing square glasses and reading a book. The Smithsonian’s Little Professor makes an appearance in Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800–2000 , the 2008 book by Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, and David Lindsay.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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Oak Ridge researcher developing autonomous intelligent engines capable of real-time calibration based on driver behavior

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Equipped with this capability, an engine should be able personalize its calibration for each driver—i.e., (Calibration is defined as the procedure required to optimize one or more engine performance indices—such as fuel economy, emissions, or engine power—with respect to the engine controllable variables.).

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