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Huawei’s smart car tech offers automakers route to China sales – ET Auto

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It’s taken Huawei just four years to become a force in smart car technology , navigating the devastation of trade sanctions on its smartphones business while simultaneously developing a driver assistance system that is the darling of the Beijing auto show. Audi said it does not comment on suppliers.

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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

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What if, instead of self-driving cars, digital assistants whispering in our ears, and virtual-reality glasses, we viewed a technologically advanced society as one where everyone had sustainable housing? Where everyone had access to preventative health care that was both personalized and less invasive?

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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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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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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It’s a textbook example of the mixture of amazement and, especially, anxiety that often accompanies a tech triumph. Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control.

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On National Golf Cart Day (seriously), here’s 10 ways they beat cars

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These smaller, more efficient alternatives to traditional cars might just be a good choice for your ‘second car’, believe it or not. And with many golf carts available for a small fraction of the cost of a new electric car, this is one of the most cost-effective ways to get into a four-wheeled electric vehicle.

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Where VR Gaming Took a Wrong Turn

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One early reader of Luckey’s posts was John Carmack , lead programmer for several of the most influential first-person shooter games, including Doom and Wolfenstein. Carmack, far beyond anyone else, pioneered the genre of hardcore games with his first-person shooter games.

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Hi-fi, Radio, and Retro: The DIY Projects Spectrum Readers Love

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Far and away our most popular article in the last five years has been “ Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort of Cheap ” (November 2018). A third of the top 15 articles relate to wireless and radio tech, with one concerning a home-brew radio telescope (October 2019).

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