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DOE announces Apps for Vehicles Challenge Winners

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The competition asked app developers and entrepreneurs to demonstrate how the open data available on most vehicles can be used to improve vehicle safety, fuel efficiency and comfort. The products developed through the Apps for Vehicles Challenge are now available for download.

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Hyundai introduces 2018 Sonata Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid models at Chicago Auto Show

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The 2018 Hybrid and Plug-in will be produced in Asan, Korea, with Hybrid availability in the first quarter of 2018 and Plug-in availability in the second quarter of 2018. kWh and the battery pack fits under the trunk floor, which allows for a flat trunk floor as well as available 60/40 split-folding rear seats. of cargo volume.

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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

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Back in 2005, before smartphones were generally available, MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan was so fed up with commuting delays in Boston that he built a mobile system to monitor road conditions. Today the Massachusetts company is the largest telematics service provider in the world. This was before iPhones , Androids , and Google Maps.”

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LA-based SMLC to lead new DOE Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute; ~$800M for 5 new hub competitions

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The Institute will focus on solving the cross-cutting manufacturing challenges that stand in the way of producing new synthetic tissues and organs—such as improving the availability, reproducibility, accessibility, and standardization of manufacturing materials, technologies, and processes to create tissue and organ products.

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First Drive: 2016 Hyundai Sonata PHEV and HEV

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Hyundai will initially offer the Sonata Plug-in Hybrid in the ZEV states—California, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont—in 2015. A percentage SOC value is available on other user-selectable displays.) Earlier post.). Hybrid mode. Battery charge mode.

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Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns

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Deep-learning models are overparameterized, which is to say they have more parameters than there are data points available for training. Initially, the approaches that worked best for each language differed based on data availability and grammatical properties. Breaking that rule turns out to be the key. Tensor Processing Unit ).

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MIT Battery Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Electric Cars : Gas 2.0

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The availability of high current charging power is not important. Digg StumbleUpon Facebook MindBodyGreen Hugg Care2 BlinkList Newsvine reddit Furl Tailrank Ma.gnolia Google Bookmarks Yahoo! But besides that, the only electronics potentially benefiting from THIS breakthrough are RCs and household rechargeable batteries.

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