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itselectric Brings US-Made Curbside EV Charging To New York City & Beyond

CleanTechnica EVs

CleanTechnica headed south to Los Angeles this week to the Curbivore conference to meet with Tiya Gordon from the curbside EV charging innovators at itselectric. While many of us binged shows good and bad on Netflix over the pandemic, Tiya was hard at work building out a disruptive new EV charging network company.

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Video Friday: No Time to Dance

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RSS 2022 : 21–1 June 2022, NEW YORK CITY ERF 2022 : 28–30 June 2022, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS RoboCup 2022 : 11–17 July 2022, BANGKOK IEEE CASE 2022 : 20–24 August 2022, MEXICO CITY CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, AZORES, PORTUGAL Enjoy today's videos! Registration for the conference is free and now open.

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GM planning to “own” the customer relationship beyond the vehicle; autonomous Volts, car sharing and fuel cells

Green Car Congress

General Motors CEO Mary Barra and her leadership team outlined the company’s plans to capitalize on the future of personal mobility by owning the customer relationship beyond the vehicle, building upon nearly two decades of connectivity leadership. The company shared its plans with investors during a conference at its Milford Proving Ground.

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. The company found that BLOOM’s final training emitted 50 tonnes of CO 2 —equivalent to about a dozen flights from New York City to Sydney. And software engineers have tremendous influence on the actual purpose and emissions of what they build.

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Paige's AI Diagnostic Tech is Revolutionizing Cancer Diagnosis

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Grady is now the chief executive of Paige , in New York City. He soon realized that making inroads with AI software would be easier than selling a new hardware system, so he left in 2012 to join medical technology startup HeartFlow , in Redwood City, Calif., It really caught my imagination.".

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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Estrin, a computer science professor at Cornell Tech , in New York City, founded the school’s Public Interest Tech Initiative to give students that opportunity. IEEE is a place for setting intellectual standards for publications, and it creates a place for a lot of open dialogue through conferences.”.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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In contrast, Whittingham’s new chemistry produced an astonishing 2.4 In the winter of 1973, corporate managers summoned Whittingham to the company’s New York City offices to appear before a subcommittee of the Exxon board. “I Marincic charged $30,000 ($83,000 in today’s dollars) to build a batch of the batteries.