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Live Updates: Tesla Giga Berlin final environmental permit press conference

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The approval was discussed by Brandenburg Minister-President Dietmar Woidke during a press conference today. The following were the topics discussed during the press conference, as well as some notable updates and quotes during the press conference (Quotes provided by Google Translate unless otherwise stated). .

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. Friends of his who were working on such projects at Google in Mountain View, Calif., Kim saw a role for his expertise in the endeavor—he has a Ph.D.

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Lux Research: “The rush to proclaim driverless cars as the near future for personal transport is, simply, wrong”

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Lux participated in two separate sessions at the conference: the first around regional planning implications, and the second on personal vehicle automation commercialization. Multiple times, we heard the phrase “But Google says.”

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Volkswagen progressing with work on quantum computing, develops traffic management system for taxi companies

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Volkswagen and its quantum computing partner D-Wave are presenting the project at the WebSummit technology conference in Lisbon. In the field of quantum computing, the Volkswagen Group is cooperating with technology partners D-Wave and Google, who provide the Volkswagen experts with access to their systems.

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Audi offering LTE as an option on A3 models

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Audi says the LTE technology is very important for Audi connect, the networking of the car with the driver, the Internet and the environment. one passenger can participate in a video conference while another watches a video. LTE enables the exchange of large amounts of data via the Internet, such as music and films in HD quality.

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. Companies like Salesforce have launched their own software sustainability initiatives , while the Green Software Foundation now comprises 64 member organizations, including tech giants Google , Intel , and Microsoft. Meanwhile, COP28’s website produced 3.69

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Chip Fabs Go Green

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At this week's COP27 climate conference in Egypt , attendees will have a new group to contend with: an alliance of more than 60 companies involved in the electronics supply chain. But it also includes some fabless companies such as AMD, Google, and Microsoft.

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