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CARB: ridesharing vehicle fleet CO2/PMT in 2018 approximately 50% higher than the statewide passenger vehicle fleet average

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The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has released the 2018 Base-year Emissions Inventory Report , as required by Senate Bill 1014 (SB 1014, California Clean Miles Standard). TNCs provide on-demand ride services where rides are arranged online to connect a passenger with drivers using their personal vehicles—e.g.,

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The Future of Fully Homomorphic Encryption

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In our digital age, where information flows seamlessly through the vast network of the internet, the importance of encrypted data cannot be overstated. As we share, communicate, and store an increasing amount of sensitive information online, the need to safeguard it from prying eyes and malicious actors becomes paramount.

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In 1989, General Magic Saw the Future of Smartphones

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The user interface of the Motorola Envoy does that for me, even though I never owned one, or indeed any personal digital assistant. Part of the shift away from skeuomorphism was purely functional; as devices added more applications and features, designers needed a cleaner display to organize information. Pretty heady stuff.

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ICL model predicts lithium-ion batteries most competitive for storage applications by 2030

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Schmidt adds that the model doesn’t say anything about whether lithium-ion batteries are the best-suited technology for stationary storage, but because it has such a head start in the market, it is best poised to be the cheapest option in the immediate future. 2018.12.008.

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Hermes to deploy 1500 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter and Vito electric vans by 2020; pilot project in 2018

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The companies are to start using battery-electric vehicles in the logistics provider’s normal operations in a pilot phase in Stuttgart and Hamburg in early 2018. An important key aspect for the future is the gradual electrification of our fleet in urban areas. —Frank Rausch, CEO of Hermes Germany GmbH. Earlier post.)

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EIA projects nearly 50% increase in world energy usage by 2050, led by growth in Asia

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In its International Energy Outlook 2019 (IEO2019), the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that world energy consumption will grow by nearly 50% between 2018 and 2050. million vehicles in 2018 to 169 million in 2050, and electric vehicle stocks in the non-OECD countries are projected to increase from 2.2

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The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI

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Organized by John McCarthy , Marvin Minsky , Claude Shannon , and Nathaniel Rochester , it brought together a few dozen of the leading thinkers in AI, computer science, and information theory to map out future paths for investigation. So who was this unknown person? He assured me that the unknown person was not his father.

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