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Aclima partnering with Google to map outdoor air quality with Street View vehicles

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a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks, is partnering with Google Earth Outreach to map and better to understand urban air quality. More interactive mapping results are available at insights.aclima.io. —Karin Tuxen-Bettman, Program Manager for Google Earth Outreach.

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Ford officially launches Tesla Supercharger access, free adapter now available to order

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In addition to adding Tesla’s connector to its own EVs in 2025, Ford also said it would make a free adapter available to existing Ford EV owners. Free Ford CCS to NACS adapter now available to order Ford is making the CCS to NACS adapter for free from today, February 29 through June 30 for new and existing Ford EV drivers.

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Volkswagen CES2017 show app previews emerging Volkswagen digital Ecosystem

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Volkswagen has developed a special app for CES 2017, available now at the App Store ( iOS ) and at Google Play ( Android ). This makes it easy to configure personal settings, integrate any services from third-party sources and port them wherever they wish. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) All settings are stored online.

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Years Later, Alphabet’s Everyday Robots Have Made Some Progress

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Last week, Google or Alphabet or X or whatever you want to call it announced that its Everyday Robots team has grown enough and made enough progress that it's time for it to become its own thing, now called, you guessed it, "Everyday Robots." There is really not enough publicly available information for us (or anyone?)

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The Mythical Non-Roboticist

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Getting robotics to work at all is often at the very limit of what a person can reason about, and requires the flexibility to employ whatever heuristic might work for your special problem. Is robotic development available only to a small group of elites with fancy PhDs? As I well know from personal experience. 5 No to both!

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U-Mich Mobility Transformation Center targeting full autonomous vehicle deployment in Ann Arbor by 2021

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In October, U-M regents approved plans for a one-of-a-kind driverless car test environment near North Campus. Industry officials say the question is not “if,” but rather “when” these technologies become available to the general public. Earlier post.). The 30-acre, $6.5

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. The networks couldn’t be changed and couldn’t know that they were part of the Internet, because they already existed,” Cerf recalls recently in an interview at his office at Google, in Reston, Va.

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