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New FordPass service allows booking and pre-paying for parking

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FordPass ( earlier post ) now offers users the ability to find, book and pay for parking at garages in more than 160 cities in the United States—all before they even step into the driver’s seat; FordPass is free for Ford owners and non-owners alike.

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Zepto in talks for USD 300 mn raise at USD 2.5-3 bn valuation – ET Auto

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The new fundraise plan and contours will be discussed in a board meeting later this month,” a person aware of the matter said. The company seems to have gained more share in some of the top cities in the country, driving the majority of growth in quick commerce,” another person aware of the dynamics said. billion cash on its books.

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

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Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. So your book takes on a much broader topic, the datafication of our daily lives and the human rights implications of that phenomenon. Wendy, thanks so much for joining me on Fixing the Future.

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chark in-car delivery service expands to Berlin

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They positively highlighted the personal convenience, the greater ease in daily life as well as the speed of the delivery. Prerequisites for using chark is the Mercedes me connect ability in vehicles as of model year 2015 and the associated app which is available free of charge from the App Store (iOS).

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Mercedes-Benz launches new private car-sharing scheme: Croove

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The relevant app will be available to download from December from the Apple iTunes store at first. Not long after launch though, there will also be an Android version in the Google Play Store, along with a desktop website for booking a vehicle. Croove is a smartphone-based platform.

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Students Develop Low-Cost Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired

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EPICS in IEEE The ability to read under any condition and navigate surroundings OurVision can read text out loud from books and periodicals as well as billboards, posters, and traffic signs. In addition, it assists the person in navigating the surroundings by describing nearby objects and their distance from the user.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out.