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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

Cars That Think

If you’ve got an idea for a business or a new product, you usually don’t have to wait a decade to make sure it’s worth doing. But the technology that I needed to make it happen—reliable low-cost communications, cheap screens and processors—didn’t exist yet. Nest Gets Googled. In 2014, Google bought Nest for $3.2

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. He planned to develop products to license or sell to one or more of the many large multinationals in Singapore. The thumb drive was all that—and more.

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Volkswagen Group invested €11.5B (US$12.9B) in R&D in 2014; ongoing focus on electromobility and digitalization of vehicles

Green Car Congress

It may come as a surprise for you, but I highly welcome the interest of Apple, Google and others in the automobile. Oil will not be as cheap as it is at the moment for ever. Production processes have already been made 19% more environmentally compatible within the space of four years, well on the way to the target of 25%.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

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. The example I used at the time was, I think it was a Google program labeling an image of people playing Frisbee in the park. More context.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

Charged EVs

It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. A pre-production XC40 Recharge I drove for an hour last October through rolling suburban hills outside New York City drew little attention, perhaps due to its muted, elegant silvery-green color and black roof.

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Revolutionizing rider safety: The protective jacket every e-biker should consider

Baua Electric

And yes, I know about degloving accidents (please don’t google that). You’d never know all of these armor pads are hidden in this shirt, not to mention the abrasion-resist aramid fibers Of course this stuff doesn’t come cheap, and compared to a distressed denim jacket from Target, the prices are significant.

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How To Survive the Winter Driving an EV

Clean Fleet Report

Even a policy with cheap rates can provide some coverage in case of an emergency. Additionally, having this product on hand is necessary to free up any frozen charging ports, which would otherwise prevent you from having access to charge your EV. Keep your EV Battery Charged.

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