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This Chinese electric bus is adorably shaped like a koala bear

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Granted, the interior doesn’t look quite as magical as the exterior, but sometimes that’s just life. Just don’t try and make an international wire transfer while you’re there. The post This Chinese electric bus is adorably shaped like a koala bear appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News. You know the one.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000. IBM has its own claim to the invention of an aspect of the device, based on a year-2000 confidential internal report written by one of its employees, Shimon Shmueli. It also claimed to have invented the flash memory stick.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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From an official point of view, COP 15 is to be informed by the most recent report from the UNFCCC’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), published in 2007. “ We are not aiming to let anyone off the hook. Climate Change And The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

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Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

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And do you also worry about algorithmic bias and automated decision-making systems that may be used in judicial systems, or legal systems, or medical contexts, things like that? At the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, we are a grant-making organization internally for our faculty. Wald: Absolutely. Wald: Yeah.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Based on calculations by the International Energy Agency (IEA), 75% of the growth in the world’s energy demand from 2005 to 2030 will come from developing countries. The Chinese can promise to do this because they’re modernizing their economy. The OPEC Fund for International Development (OPEC Fund).

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

Cars That Think

My primary appointment is at the law school where I teach legal philosophy. So it was from 1600 to 2014, about whether you’re allowed legally to go to war. And how does it relate to legal and ethical questions we have? Schneider: Before we talk about your book, tell me a little bit about yourself. What about cyber war?”

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