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Ford and Google enter 6-year strategic partnership

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Ford and Google announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the transformation of Ford’s customer experience. Ford also named Google Cloud its preferred cloud provider to leverage Google’s expertise in data, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML). These apps are optimized and integrated for in-vehicle use.

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Volvo Cars in strategic partnership with Google to build Android into next generation connected cars

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Volvo Cars announced a “close” partnership with Google to develop the next generation of in-car infotainment and connectivity solution based on Android, offering access to a wide array of apps and services. We are making an important strategic step with the Google partnership. It will launch on new Volvo models within two years.

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Boeing and Kitty Hawk form strategic partnership on electric urban air mobility

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Boeing and start-up Kitty Hawk Corporation have entered a strategic partnership to collaborate on future efforts to advance safe urban air mobility. Working with a company like Kitty Hawk brings us closer to our goal of safely advancing the future of mobility. —Steve Nordlund, vice president and general manager of Boeing NeXt.

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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

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AT, in its most basic form, is anything that helps a person achieve enhanced performance, improved function, or accelerated access to information. To give you an idea, this year's attendees included Google, Microsoft, Hulu, Amazon, and the Central Intelligence Agency. The Future of Assistive Technology. Visit CSUN's.

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Aclima partnering with Google to map outdoor air quality with Street View vehicles

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a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks, is partnering with Google Earth Outreach to map and better to understand urban air quality. Today we’re announcing the success of our integration test with Google, which lays the foundation for generating high resolution maps of air quality in cities.

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Ford launches app developer challenge to improve consumer understanding of personal fuel efficiency

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Ford launched a $50,000 challenge for software developers to write innovative apps to help consumers better understand and improve their personal fuel efficiency. Participants will have access to Ford’s OpenXC connectivity research platform as a sandbox to create and test their ideas for the Personalized Fuel Efficiency Apps Challenge.

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In 1989, General Magic Saw the Future of Smartphones

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The user interface of the Motorola Envoy does that for me, even though I never owned one, or indeed any personal digital assistant. Skeuomorphic design began to wane in the mid-2000s, as Microsoft, Google, and Apple embraced flat design. At its heart, General Magic was attempting to transform personal communications.

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