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Ford announces Smart Mobility plan; 25 initial projects

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In his CES talk, Fields said that rapidly advancing connectivity; software and sensor technology; and big data were the enablers behind the Smart Mobility projects—eight in North America, nine in Europe and Africa, seven in Asia and one in South America. Data Driven Healthcare, Africa. Data Driven Insurance, London.

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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

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She developed the geeRemit app to let people in the United States send money to people in sub-Saharan Africa. She got an opportunity to do so in 2012, when she took the job of CTO in IBM’s Central, East, and West Africa regional office, in Nairobi, Kenya. The app would then suggest the person set aside money.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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I'm a very competitive person," he says, "so I was motivated to try and disprove these articles and actually build this device.". Georgia Tech freshman studying computer science, created a rip-current detection system that incorporates machine learning. Brian Minnick. That didn't stop him, however. RIP-CURRENT DETECTION SYSTEM.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

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News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Andy Grove on battery power To wean itself from imported oil, the U.S. Just this past year Russia sent tanks into oil-rich Georgia, and an oil tanker was hijacked off the coast of Somalia.

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