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Did You Make Your Connecting Flight? You May Have A.I. to Thank.

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Last month in Chicago, a United Airlines flight to London was ready to depart, but it was still waiting for 13 passengers connecting from Costa Rica. It’s like Google maps, but in the air,” explained Vikram Baskaran, vice president for information technology services at the carrier. It’s not just United. Generative A.I.

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Good Energies, Google and Marubeni Investing in Offshore Wind Backbone

Green Car Congress

Energy investor Good Energies, Google and Marubeni Corporation are investing in the Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) backbone transmission project. Source: Google. Markian Melnyk developed the AWC concept while researching “Offshore Power”, his book on offshore renewable energy. Click to enlarge.

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Opinion: GM Shouldn’t Kill Apple CarPlay, Android Auto

The Truth About Cars

Tim Babbitt, GM's head of product for infotainment, said the following to MT: “CarPlay and Android Auto have stability issues that manifest themselves as bad connections, poor rendering, slow responses, and dropped connections. Apps that are currently available in CarPlay and Android Auto.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

Cars That Think

For the past three months, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had been working together on a problem Kahn had been pondering for some time: how to connect ground-based military computers seamlessly to communications satellites and mobile radios. The first real-world test came in 1975, connecting Stanford to BBN in Cambridge, Mass., universities.

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The environmental impact of electric cars

Drive Electric

The UK also hopes to connect more and more EVs to the electricity grid to share power at peak times, in something called vehicle to grid charging (V2G). This is why it’s so encouraging to see companies like Amazon and DHL join movements such as the Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance.

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Dr. ChatGPT Will Interface With You Now

Cars That Think

He and ended up writing a book about it with Peter Lee , Microsoft’s corporate vice president of research and incubations, and Carey Goldberg , a science and medicine journalist. What I didn’t share in the book is that it argued with me. You described in the book your first impressions. The popular phrase was Dr. Google.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

Cars That Think

He was therefore perfectly positioned to be the author of the definitive corporate history of the company he used to work for, in a book entitled IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon , which was published in 2019 by MIT Press. Just how revolutionary was that for IBM? And then convince everybody they did it.

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