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Video Friday: Automotive Artistry

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Tesla shares fall below offer price

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Shares in the electric carmaker, Tesla have fallen below its offer price, just a week after beginning trading in New York, the BBC reports. The Silicon Valley firm known for its electric supercar, the Roadster, saw shares in its company drop to $15.83 on Tuesday (July 6, 2010). It’s the first time the company has [.].

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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

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In November of that year, a front-page New York Times article was instrumental in bringing awareness of deep learning technology to the broader public sphere. In a January 2020 interview with the BBC, Yoshua Bengio said that "AI's abilities were somewhat overhyped. by certain companies with an interest in doing so.".

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

Green Car Congress

A BBC article [ 9 ] upped the stakes on Thursday the 9 th with an article on carbon emissions that characterized “the lower target of 1.5 In storm preparedness, for example, New York City’s building codes and flood risk maps are based on historical and existing risks rather than projected future risks. BBC: 15 December 2009. [

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RCA’s Lucite Phantom Teleceiver Introduced the Idea of TV

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On 20 April 1939, David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America, addressed a small crowd outside the RCA pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. Today we are on the eve of launching a new industry, based on imagination, on scientific research and accomplishment,” he proclaimed. That industry was television.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Got a hot tip on breaking green news, or a suggestion for areas of coverage? Editor After a year as an editor at large for National Geographic magazine, Tom returned to The New York Times in July 2008 to help expand the papers coverage of sustainable energy development and green business. Staff Tom Zeller Jr.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Sven Thesen, the communication and technology director for Better Place , a start-up that is gaining traction (see this recent New York Times article ) in its effort to create a network for electric cars in various countries, likened the concept of electric cars to cellphones. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?”

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