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BMWs to feature in-car intelligent personal assistant

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The BMW Group is introducing the BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant—a new proprietary in-car AI assistant intended to enhance the BMW driving experience. BMW’s Intelligent Personal Assistant combines with the new BMW Operating System 7.0 BMW’s Intelligent Personal Assistant combines with the new BMW Operating System 7.0

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TNGA-based 2019 Toyota Avalon features new hybrid system

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Underpinned by the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) K Sedan platform, the 2019 Avalon is powered by two new TNGA powertrains: a punchy 3.5-liter 2019 Avalon Hybrid. Drive personality. TMMK) in Georgetown, Kentucky, respectively. liter V6 (2GR-FKS), and, a 2.5-liter Hybrid grades include XLE, Limited, and XSE.

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Do We Dare Use Generative AI for Mental Health?

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And ChatGPT has helped millions of people experiment with conversational AI. As a company that relies on conversation, Woebot Health had to decide whether generative AI could make Woebot a better tool, or whether the technology was too dangerous to incorporate into our product.

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Flying declined substantially more than driving during the current pandemic

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In this brief note, I examine the distances traveled by flying and driving in the United States in March and April 2020—the first two months of the current pandemic—and compare them with the corresponding distances in March and April 2019. Two caveats are in order.

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Honda e EV features five-screen, full-width digital dashboard

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Honda Personal Assistant for AI-powered connectivity. Connected services and applications can also be accessed using voice commands via Honda Personal Assistant. The Honda Personal Assistant is activated by saying “OK Honda”, followed by the question or instruction. Honda has already received 36,000 expressions of interest.

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Study finds all-electric rideshare fleet could reduce carbon emissions, but increase traffic issues

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They used the model and the data to estimate the life cycle air pollution, greenhouse gas, and traffic externality benefits and costs of serving rides based on Chicago TNC trip data from 2019 to 2022 with fully electric vehicles.

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Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

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In comparison, the Brayton cycle has a theoretical conversion efficiency upwards of 50%. Any person who controls an electrical grid is very cautious about what you sync to their grid, because you could disrupt the grid. The most important thing about this test is that we got Sandia to agree to take the power.

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