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Audi joins Spoke Safety, Qualcomm, Commsignia to help protect bicyclists through connected technology

Green Car Congress

In Alpharetta, Georgia, Audi collaborated with Applied Information and the Fulton Co. School System, Qualcomm Technologies and others, to connect cars with school buses to identify when children were boarding or exiting buses as well as show vehicle drivers when they were entering active school zones.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

Cars That Think

Through his network of honor society members, he also found a mentor who helped him get an internship at a major research institute in Georgia. Greene participated in several of the society’s student leadership conferences, where he was a presenter and keynote speaker.

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Teen Creates App To Identify Nutrient Deficiencies

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His father suggested he think about ikigai , a Japanese concept referring to something that gives a person a sense of purpose. He presented his app at last year’s IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Reality during an event hosted in collaboration with Amazon Web Services. The app starts with a photo of a nail taken by a user.

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Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis

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Spafford then went to Georgia Tech to pursue a master’s degree in information and computer science. The faculty [at Georgia Tech] had me design and teach a class in hardware support for operating systems,” he recalls. “I Fast forward to today, and looking at any major system in use, no person alive can do the same thing.

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Your Guide to Electric-Vehicle Charging-Station Tax Credits

EV Connect

Georgia Power offers $500 per Level 2 charger. The National Conference of State Legislatures provides an up-to-date map with detailed information about current programs in every state and US territory. These are just a few examples.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk , many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be. Georgia Chalvatzaki.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

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News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Andy Grove on battery power To wean itself from imported oil, the U.S. Just this past year Russia sent tanks into oil-rich Georgia, and an oil tanker was hijacked off the coast of Somalia.

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