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Ford Sustainability Report details pilot program in South Africa to deliver health care, education

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A new Ford Motor Company pilot program aims to enhance mobility health services in rural areas of South Africa and Nigeria. Two modified Ford Rangers will work as mobile clinics to deliver health services, dispense medication for chronic conditions, and monitor the growth of children in South Africa.

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Study finds shortage of critical metals could put the brakes on electrification in Europe

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With the current raw material production levels there will not be enough of these metals in future—not even if recycling increases, according to the findings of a major survey led by Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, on behalf of the European Commission. Earlier post.) But that’s not the current reality.

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Volkswagen opens IT Center in the Gläserne Manufaktur in Dresden; Volkswagen Industrial Cloud

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In the future, the Industrial Cloud will link all 122 Group-wide Volkswagen production facilities. The opening of the SDC also signifies a further step forward for the Gläserne Manufaktur towards becoming a high-tech site and a Center of Future Mobility. The Industrial Cloud is being established together with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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The patent success in South Africa was thanks to Thaler’s attorney, Ryan Abbott. Abbott, a physician as well as a lawyer, is a professor of law and health sciences at the University of Surrey’s School of Law. Meanwhile he found that companies using AI to invent were growing worried. “AI More than 340 people attended.

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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

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Last year the IEEE Future Networks initiative ran the inaugural IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge to seek out innovative projects and ideas aimed at increasing connectivity. More than 250 academics, companies, nonprofit organizations, individuals, and students from 69 countries entered the contest. www.youtube.com.

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Anglo American Platinum invests in Hydrogenious Technologies; liquid organic hydrogen carrier technology for H2 storage

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South Africa-based Anglo American Platinum , the world’s leading primary producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), has invested in the first close of the Series A financing round of Hydrogenious Technologies, a company developing liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) hydrogen storage technology. Click to enlarge. 2012.08.066.

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Global billionaires unite in “Breakthrough energy coalition” to support development of zero-carbon energy

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It is the private sector that knows how to build companies, to evaluate the potential for success, and to take the risks that lead to taking innovative ideas and bringing them to the world. Success will provide the economic proof points necessary for the mainstream market-driven clean energy economy required for our planetary future.

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