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Ford, Uber and Lyft to share data through SharedStreets platform

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Ford Motor Company, Uber and Lyft have committed to support to SharedStreets , a new data platform designed to make it easier for the private sector to work with cities around the world and leverage data to improve urban mobility. Bloomberg, the founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies and Mayor of New York City, 2002-2013.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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The San Francisco–based company helps educators teach math to preuniversity students. She also served in executive positions in Boston public schools , New York City public schools , and Success Academy charter schools, also in New York City. million students in the system’s 1,800 schools.

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Ford opening up Silicon Valley research lab

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Ford Motor Company plans to open a Silicon Valley-based Research Lab—its first dedicated R&D office on the west coast—to scout for new technology and to find new partners to innovate personal mobility solutions for the future. and Ford employees working with connectivity platform partner Microsoft Corp.

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GM planning to “own” the customer relationship beyond the vehicle; autonomous Volts, car sharing and fuel cells

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General Motors CEO Mary Barra and her leadership team outlined the company’s plans to capitalize on the future of personal mobility by owning the customer relationship beyond the vehicle, building upon nearly two decades of connectivity leadership. —Mary Barra. In China earlier this year a fleet of EN-V 2.0 eBike Concept.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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For the past three months, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had been working together on a problem Kahn had been pondering for some time: how to connect ground-based military computers seamlessly to communications satellites and mobile radios. That mission came from Bob Kahn, then at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) , the company contracted by the U.S.

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Researchers Aim to Decarbonize Chemical Industry by Electrifying It

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These emissions are approaching a tipping point, and the companies responsible for creating these necessary products are increasingly looking at options to help offset their pollution outputs. Especially for American companies, investments in long-term decarbonization strategies have not been substantial.

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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Estrin, a computer science professor at Cornell Tech , in New York City, founded the school’s Public Interest Tech Initiative to give students that opportunity. She went on to found or help found eight technology companies, and she is currently chief executive of consulting firm JLabs , in Menlo Park, Calif.