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Headaches for Red Bull: Adrian Newey Isn't Retiring Yet

The Truth About Cars

Though many believed he would ride off into the sunset on the strength of his multiple successful car designs, Newey recently told the BBC that he was giving serious thought to changing teams and spending another four or five years in the sport. They will gain more electric power and rely on sustainable fuels.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

ºF) above pre-industrial levels to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change, and that global GHG emissions would have to peak around 2020 and then sharply decline by 50% to 85% by the year 2050. AR4 also affirmed that warming would have to be held to no more than 2 ºC to 2.4

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020. I personally wouldn’t count on the “Big Three&# actually implementing any of these new technologies in the near future.

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Content Credentials Will Fight Deepfakes in the 2024 Elections

Cars That Think

If the person altering the file uses a tool that supports content credentialing, information about the changes is added to the manifest that travels with the image. In 2020, Meta’s Deepfake Detection Challenge awarded top prize to a system that had only 65 percent accuracy in distinguishing between real and fake.

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