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Ford to begin autonomous vehicle testing on California roads; Silicon Valley Lab accelerates Smart Mobility Plan

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The current (as of 3 December 2015) approved participants in the California program in addition to Ford are: Volkswagen Group of America; Mercedes Benz; Google; Delphi Automotive; Tesla Motors; Bosch; Nissan; Cruise Automation; BMW; and Honda. Autonomous Ford Fusion outside the Ford Research and Innovation Center in Palo Alto.

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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.". Google Earth , she was able to gather and annotate more than 1,000 images of beaches in Africa, Australia, and North America. Brian Minnick. That didn't stop him, however.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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The award is sponsored by Google. Her team’s research program included projects in Australia and Africa. They reinforced the perception that Dresselhaus was a truly amazing person as well as a trailblazer.” You would never, as a junior person, typically have opportunities to meet these people.”

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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The US and China take the lead in scaling up the technology, given their large markets, tech-friendly regulatory environments and industry giants, such as Google and the State Grid Corporation of China. Some don’t manage, and political tensions rise in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Dirty nationalism. ?Elections

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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The second concern was Facebook’s reputation and past behavior, including its involvement in Cambridge Analytica, a British company that, during the 2010s, collected a trove of personal data from Facebook users without their consent and used it for political-advertising purposes. The Final Pillar Elias Stein Pillar 4 is financial inclusion.

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My journey to and on the Mauritanian Iron Ore Train

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I could almost taste Africa in the air, tajines everywhere you looked. A bus took me to Tarifa, and after a quick check-in, I was on the ferry crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, and just 36 hours after leaving Amsterdam, I was in Africa, a whole new world waiting to be discovered. To see nothing but desert for miles as a Dutch person?

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Nissan plans to start selling electric car in Seattle next year

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