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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

Cars That Think

You decide, after some months of interacting with the 4evru’s version of your father, that while you are somewhat glad to learn who your father truly was, you’re mourning the loss of the person you thought you knew. Consider that Microsoft has a patent for creating a conversational chatbot of a specific person using their “social data.”

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Driving Dystopia: Eight Automakers Accused of Lying About Customer Data Protections

The Truth About Cars

While there are actually very few data protections on the federal level as they pertain to corporations, misrepresenting your business is something the FTC would be very interested in. Corporations go back on their word all the time and automakers have been among the worst offenders in recent years.

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BMW, Ford, Honda to Form New EV Charging Company

The Truth About Cars

The company is still pending regulatory approvals, as we used to be concerned about corporate monopolies and are bound by tradition to pretend that still happens. ChargeScape will allegedly help “reduce EV customers’ personal carbon footprints” by utilizing electricity stemming from renewables like wind and solar.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

As for warranties , there is legal precedent that original auto warranties cannot be voided completely by modifications — only the part(s) affected by retrofit will have their warranties affected. A new trend is conversion of internal combustion engine vehicles. Well be providing more information about this in the coming months.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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That looks like an early attempt at finding dark data at this corporate level. Steven Cherry: There's a process in legal cases, especially lawsuits, that involves an incredibly tedious process of finding and extracting information from sometimes enormous masses of data that by law, the other side has to provide.

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The prototype vehicle, called Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is designed to ease congestion and pollution problems in cities. It is based on the Segway Personal Transporter but holds two people, instead of one, and lets them sit, instead of stand. by neowolfwitch April 7, 2009 6:23 AM PDT Is this a week late?

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