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MIT, QCRI use AI to enrich digital maps to improve GPS navigation; RoadTagger

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However, creating detailed maps is an expensive, time-consuming process done mostly by big companies, such as Google, which sends vehicles around with cameras strapped to their hoods to capture video and images of an area’s roads. Roads can be occluded by, for example, trees and buildings, making it a challenging task, however.

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Open-Source Security Chip Released

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The project began back in 2019 by a coalition of companies, started by Google and shepherded by the non-profit lowRISC in Cambridge, UK. Because it’s otherwise inaccessible, the system can trust that it hasn’t been tampered with, providing a basis to build security on.

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The Metaverse Needs Standards, Too

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But there’s enough industry interest in beginning the process toward building it—whatever it may ultimately be. Although there are numerous competing visions of what the metaverse will be, many such visions have common points of connection. As a second analogy, the wireless industry began working on 6G cellular standards in 2019.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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DOE received more than 160 applications for 2019 TCF funding, with project teams engaging more than 90 different partners across multiple diverse disciplines. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS), San Jose, Calif. Louis , Mo.

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GM planning to “own” the customer relationship beyond the vehicle; autonomous Volts, car sharing and fuel cells

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General Motors CEO Mary Barra and her leadership team outlined the company’s plans to capitalize on the future of personal mobility by owning the customer relationship beyond the vehicle, building upon nearly two decades of connectivity leadership. —Mary Barra. Let’s Drive NYC.

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3 Surprising Marketing Benefits of Electric Car Charging Stations

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This move helps you draw in new customers, attract the best employees and build loyalty to your brand. Build Brand Loyalty Consumer attitudes have been shifting in favor of sustainably minded business for decades now, but this has quickly become a top priority in recent years. A 2020 survey by Consumer Reports showed that 71% of U.S.

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Hyundai’s 2019 IONIQ electrified line-up adds active safety features, voice recognition, remote charge management

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Hyundai’s model-year 2019 IONIQ lineup—hybrid, plug-in hybrid and battery-electric— adds new and broader applications of active safety features, enhanced voice-recognition features and standard remote charge management for Plug-in and Electric models. 2019 Ioniq models will be available at Hyundai dealerships this summer.

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