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Study finds all-electric rideshare fleet could reduce carbon emissions, but increase traffic issues

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But the cars and SUVs used in these situations drive more miles each year than a typical personal vehicle, contributing a higher proportion of greenhouse gases to the environment. Major ridesourcing companies Uber and Lyft have promised all-electric fleets by 2030 in an effort to reduce their carbon footprint.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Coast Guard To verify the caller’s identity and solve the apparent crime, the Coast Guard’s investigative service emailed the files to Rita Singh , a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and author of the textbook Profiling Humans From Their Voice (Springer, 2019). Forensic speaker comparison is primarily investigative.

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The 11 Commandments of Hugging Robots

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Unfortunately, physical contact with humans is something that robots find especially difficult and occasionally dangerous, so that we cannot (yet) safely use them as a proxy for nuanced physical contact with another person. When HuggieBot detects a user in its personal space, it opens its arms and invites the user in for a hug.

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Study on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities Highlights Importance of Geophysical and Technical Factors

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Within the overall trends there are differences between cities with more or less public transit; while personal income also impacts heating and industrial fuel use. They calculated emissions for ten cities (or metropolitan regions), which vary in population from 432,000 to 9,519,000; comparisons are in per capita terms. Charles Kolb.

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New Mercedes-Benz lab procedure shows MB car filters trap even finest allergenic particles

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The results were confirmed by a medical study conducted by ECARF Institute GmbH in an innovative, mobile pollen chamber in the grounds of the Charité university hospital in Berlin. Andreas Wiegers, Design for Environment, Interior Emissions at Mercedes-Benz. In Europe, around 30% of the population is affected. ECARF study.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich. His lab is best known for developing extremely agile drones that can autonomously navigate through complex environments at very high speeds. Faster, it turns out, than even the best human drone racing champions.

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Oil sands GHG lifecycle study using operating data finds lower emitting oil sands cases outperform higher emitting conventional crude cases; a call for more sophisticated tools and reporting

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Well-to-wheel (WTW) greenhouse gas emissions for in situ SAGD and surface mining pathways generated employing GHOST/TIAX/ GHGenius combination and comparison with SAGD, mining and conventional crude oil literature pathways (all results are on a HHV basis). Xs show comparative results from literature. Credit: ACS, Bergerson et al.

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