Cars That Think

APRIL 29, 2022

For example, the quantum effect known as superposition allows atoms and other building blocks of the cosmos to essentially exist in two or more places at the same time, while another quantum effect known as entanglement can link particles so they can influence each other instantly regardless of how far apart they are.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The KPMG study, “Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World”, explores issues such as climate change, energy and fuel volatility, water availability and cost and resource availability, as well as population growth spawning new urban centers. —“Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World”.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 23, 2022

It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

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Cars That Think

JULY 24, 2024

But they are the outgrowth of years of hard work done before the Internet became a thing, when there was a thorny problem: How could people collaborate effectively when everyone’s using a stand-alone personal computer? The new personal-computing technologies clearly needed to do more to foster collaboration.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 11, 2022

Single lens reflex (SLR) A camera viewing system that, by swinging an angled mirror temporarily between lens and film, allows a person looking into the viewfinder to seem to see through the lens, previewing the image that will be captured on film. to build equipment for attaching the dice to the reel of laminated film.

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Cars That Think

MAY 18, 2024

Personal computing has changed a lot in the past four decades, and one of the biggest changes, perhaps the most unheralded, comes down to compatibility. If you wanted to sell hardware in the 1980s, you were stuck building multiple versions of the same device. Ebbing demand for personal computers has slowed innovation in advanced PCs.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 2, 2022

I do want to set some expectations with respect to our Optimus robot… Last year was just a person in a robot suit, but we’ve come a long way, and compared to that, it’s going to be very impressive.” But the hard part is not building a robot, it’s getting that robot to do useful stuff , and I think Musk is way out of his depth here.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

They use cheap, clean, and domestic electricity for short trips and daily commutes, displacing or eliminating oil consumption and CO2 pollution. Electric vehicles (EV) or (BEV) are a clean, quiet alternative to conventional automobiles, which are powered by petroleum derivatives that, when burned, emit noxious gases into the environment.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The upside is that a lot of work is being put into making these new satellite constellations more secure , even though it will likely take a lot of rethinking about how to design and build the thousands upon thousands of satellites that make up these growing networks. Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice? What’s Going On?

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Cars That Think

APRIL 7, 2022

Adjusted for inflation, they cost about US $8,000 and weren’t even a thousandth as fast as a cheap gaming computer today. I thought I could move far beyond simple crosshairs and text on a flat plane to create virtual objects that could be spatially registered to real objects in an ordinary environment.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 2, 2022

You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. For example, he noted, “the standard way of building oscillators is to build one and then multiplex it until you have as many as you need. The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. February 17, 2009 7:03 am Link Smart Grid An Invaluable Idea Worldwide / Buildings could become the new power plants BRUSSELS ? Analysts are sanguine about this kind of thing becoming more common — someday.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Utilities could avoid building more dirty peaking power plants. In the future, utilities will pay you to plug-in your vehicle. 99,999 ripple free.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Better balancing electricity supply from wind or solar energy with demand means that utilities do not need to build "stand-by" power plants that can delivery electricity reliably, Schurr said. "If Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Click here to review our Terms of Use.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. In a flurry of electric vehicle activity, three back-to-back announcements this week have placed a spotlight on Oregon’s plans to be the friendliest state in the nation in which to build, sell and buy electric cars.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Shenzhen manufacturing region, where the company is headquartered, is known for cheap unskilled labor, but BYD’s competitive advantage derives from its cheap skilled labor. Innovation appears to be Mr. Wang’s personal passion. They are the top of the top,” Mr. Wang told me, when I visited BYD last year.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 10, 2009

I suspect Ted just doesn’t have it in him to take on a big league issue like this – especially when he’s so busy trying to raise more money to add to his $700,000 “war chest&# for the Attorney General’s office he’s now running for… I spoke to Termed-Out Ted in person last night at the L.A.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Unfortunately, this conference focused primarily on setting a cap on carbon emissions and providing financial aid to developing countries to build capacities to adapt to the negative impacts of climate change. Generally each person contributes assets and share risks. Such a commitment would resolve many of today’s political challenges.

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Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2024

And most of all, a new powertrain – electric – that will account for roughly 100% of cars on the road within a couple decades, which no serious person disputes. All of China’s effort to build EV manufacturing bore fruit – while the country was initially slow to adopt EVs, in 2023 it had a whopping 37% EV market share (up from 5% in 2020 and.84%

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