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Crushed BMW Electric Cars, Brazil's Ethanol History, Google Glass Charging App: Today's Car News

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Today on Green Car Reports: BMW ActiveE electric cars get crushed, a new Google Glass App for locating charging stations, and a brief history of ethanol in Brazil. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Google Unveils Faster, Cheaper Mechanism To Track Worldwide Deforestation Online; Support for Land Use Change Measurement, Verification and Reporting

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Progressive deforestation in Rondonia, Brazil as seen in. Landsat images via Google Earth. Through its philanthropic arm, Google.org, Google introduced an online suite of beta software that leverages cloud computing to track worldwide land-use changes such as deforestation. deforestation in Rondonia, Brazil.

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U of Illinois study shows reduced speed limits save lives in busy cities with minimal impact on travel time

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A new study from University of Illinois shows that speed reductions in São Paulo, Brazil, significantly reduced fatal accidents and increased travel times only minimally. The researchers spent nine months developing software that allowed them to analyze trip durations using data from Google Directions API. —Peter Christensen.

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Daimler’s moovel Group acquires Familonet GmbH, provider of location messenger app Familonet

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In Germany, the mobility app moovel—available to download free of charge from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store—combines local public transport, the carsharing provider car2go, mytaxi, rental bicycles and Deutsche Bahn. The core markets are Germany, USA, Brazil, India and Turkey.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif., He died unexpectedly of natural causes. as a software engineer.

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An Undersea Cable Could Fill In the Gaps on Fiber-Optic Maps

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Even as Google and Meta set their sights on building entirely new lines that will drastically boost the continent’s capacity, those lines hug well-trodden, predictable routes. There is one effort that hopes to do what Google and Meta won’t—SAEx, or the Southern Oceans Network. But it’s been slow to come. That meant ramping up plans.

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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement

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Timnit Gebru was a well-known scholar in the AI ethics community long before she got fired by Google in December 2020—but that messy and dramatic incident brought a new level of attention to her work. I don’t know if you know Mimi Onuoha —she’s an artist who made a similar point about how Google Maps completely ignores favelas in Brazil.

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