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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. Each tile is a separate graph node, connected by lines along the road.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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Advanced technology, prototype vehicles, and business plans are being developed by Google, car sharing services like Car2Go (Daimler), Uber, automakers, network providers, software and technology suppliers. Several of these firms confirmed their progress at Silicon Valley Connected & Charged Symposium, hosted by software giant SAP.

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UCI-led study finds crowd-sourced crash alerts beat corresponding Highway Patrol reported crashes

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This pilot study was funded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and National Human Genome Research Institute, and conducted in collaboration with the California Highway Patrol (CHP) and Waze/Google. 2019) “Crowdsourced Traffic Data as an Emerging Tool to Monitor Car Crashes.” Young SD, Wang W, Chakravarthy B.

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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. Once there is something both people agree on, a trusted secure connection can be established. Conventional, proprietary chips can also leverage RoT technology.

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Hyundai introduces US market version of Kona Electric at New York show; 250-mile range

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2019 Kona Electric models will be produced in Ulsan, Korea and available in the fourth quarter of 2018, with initial availability in California and subsequently in the ZEV-focused states in the western and northeastern regions of the US market. Advanced infotainment and connectivity. Next-generation BLue Link connected car system.

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The Metaverse Needs Standards, Too

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Although there are numerous competing visions of what the metaverse will be, many such visions have common points of connection. Then, how it functions and is used will remain up to member companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and others. Trevett is also president of the Khronos Group.

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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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