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Lucid Motors chooses Mobileye as partner for autonomous vehicle technology

Green Car Congress

These technologies will enable a full Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) suite at launch, and then enable a logical and safe transition to autonomous driving functionality through over-the-air software updates. Projection of the map data; on the right side the lanes are mapped onto Google Earth.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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That device, now known by a variety of names—including memory stick, USB stick, flash drive, as well as thumb drive—changed the way computer files are stored and transferred. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Rapid and pivotal advances in technology have a way of unsettling people, because they can reverberate mercilessly, sometimes, through business, employment, and cultural spheres. 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. And it’s really cheap.

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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. Android running the dashboard means Google Assistant, Google Maps, Google Play Store, and more, are instantly available and work the way you already use them. Until now, it’s had no plug-in option.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! And this could come from behind-the-scenes use cases for robot manipulation, in warehouses, retail stores, food preparation, and manufacturing. Roboticist, Google Brain. The electric motors with the battery support could make a very good tool for academic research.

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Best EVs of 2022: Our verdict on the new electric cars of the year

EV Central

Powered by Google’s Android Automotive operating system, its responsiveness is superior to just about anything else on the market today. A brief ride along in the sleekly aerodynamic EQXX with one of the engineers to helped create it quickly made it clear that there are many ways to make better use of every kWh stored in a battery pack.

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Slow start for charge of the electric cars - Times Online

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Cheap to run but expensive to buy, they offer theprospect of low or zero carbon emissions, but manufacturers won’t sell themunless motorists want to buy them – and motorists won’t buy unless the priceis right and there are enough places to charge the batteries. So the car uses an electrical store to power the drive motor.