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CTA Foundation, IBM, Local Motors collaborate on accessible, self-driving vehicles

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At CES 2017, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) Foundation announced an alliance with IBM and Local Motors to help create the world’s most accessible, self-driving vehicle. Adapting light and videos for users with photosensitive epilepsy. —Ruoyi Zhou, director of accessibility research, IBM.

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NSF leads $400M federal effort to boost advanced wireless research

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In the last decade, wireless usage across the US has expanded significantly, with nearly 350 million smartphones, connected tablets and wearable devices in use—more than double the number from a decade ago—carrying more than 100,000 times the traffic they supported in 2008.

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This Startup Uses the MIT Inventor App to Teach Girls Coding

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Employees 10 In 2017 she decided to do something to close the gap. The first group of students created several apps to enter in the competition, including ones that connected users to water-filling stations, provided people with information about food banks, and allowed users to report potholes.

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Building Better Qubits

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While growing up in Germany, Heike Riel helped her father design and build furniture in the family workshop. Grove Award “for contributions to materials for nanoscale electronics and organic light-emitting devices.” Her research focused on the optimization of multilayer organic light-emitting devices to be used in displays.

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California ARB releases proposed new plan to cut 2030 GHG by 40% v. 1990; more stringent LCFS, more ZEVs

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Maintaining existing GHG standards for light- and heavy-duty vehicles; put 4.2 This effort was guided by legislation and reflects input from dozens of public workshops and community meetings, and input from CARB’s Environmental Justice Advisory Committee and many other stakeholders. Sustainable Freight Action Plan.

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Raejean & Tessie’s photographic EV road trip

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Tessie” is what I call my Tesla Model S 90-D, and since her birth in 2017, she has been a faithful companion. She recommended a small, battery-powered, $8 lantern for ambient light, good for both inside and outside the car. My favorite was the new charger in Hines, Oregon, that connected the Supercharger dots for me.

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Center for Automotive Research calls long-run economic risk to auto industry of mandating permanent fuel economy standards very serious; recommends periodic reviews

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Based on the results of the study, CAR believes the economic risk to the auto industry connected to mandating permanent fuel economy standards in the long run is “ very serious ” The group recommends periodic review to assess the rate of technology development and cost reduction of advanced technologies leading up to 2025.