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Toyota and partners launching public autonomous shuttle service in Indiana

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The hop-on, hop-off service connects the residential area at Pullman Pointe and South Pointe Village apartments to the commercial district along Commercial Drive and Fishers Corner Boulevard, Municipal Drive and 116th Street, including a stop along the new Nickel Plate Trail.

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Wallbox introduces Quasar 2 next-generation bidirectional home charger at CES 2022

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Quasar 2 offers CCS compatibility and connects to the myWallbox app through Wifi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, or 4G. Features include flexible amperage setting, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity, charge scheduling, power sharing, the myWallbox app, and voice control via Amazon Alexa and Google Home. Providing up to 11.5

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Federal Realty partners with Car Charging Group to install EV charging stations at retail sites nationwide

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Pentagon Row and The Village at Shirlington in Arlington, Virginia. Users will have access to the ChargePoint Network, the largest global online network connecting EV drivers to unoccupied charging stations. Congressional Plaza and Rockville Town Square in Rockville, Maryland.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Critical Facilities, $300,000 Embedded Planet, Cleveland, Ohio Simulation Tool for Energy-Efficient Connected and Automated Vehicle Control Development, $600,000 Hyundai America Technical Center, Superior Township, Mich. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash. El Centro, Calif. IsoTherm Inc.,

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Toyota Connected’s ‘Cabin Awareness’ concept uses new tech to detect occupants

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Toyota Connected North America (TCNA), an independent software and innovation center of excellence, has introduced its Cabin Awareness concept technology that uses millimeter-wave, high-resolution 4D imaging radar to help detect occupants (including certain pets) in cars and has the potential to detect them if ever they’re left behind.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. A plaque commemorating the ARPANET now stands in front of the Arlington, Va.,

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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And by mid-1971, program director Lawrence Roberts of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was becoming impatient with the slow pace at which ARPA-funded researchers were getting connected. One major problem was the cost and fragility of stringing a dedicated cable from every computer to every terminal. in December of the same year.

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