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BAE Systems and Jaunt Air Mobility to collaborate on electric energy management systems for urban air mobility platforms

Green Car Congress

BAE Systems’ development and integration expertise in high integrity controls and power management systems gives our business an edge in the development of next generation air vehicles for urban environments. The company also has more than 40 years of experience in controls and avionics for military and commercial aircraft.

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Ford Smart Mobility shifts from research to implementation; company announces new programs, next areas of focus

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Ford Smart Mobility is the company’s plan to deliver the next level in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience and big data; the initial stage was the creation of 25 mobility experiments across the globe. We see this as a huge opportunity—just as big as Henry Ford had in his day a hundred years ago.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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Alamouti first noticed the potential for the spread of disinformation on the Internet in 2010, when he began working as group R&D director for Vodafone in London. The service used mounted cellular base stations with many antennas to provide high-speed Internet connections for voice and data to homes and small businesses.

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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. arranged a visit to a Semi-Automatic Ground Environment computer center. and University College London.

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How DeepMind Is Reinventing the Robot

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What these applications have in common is that they involve learning and operating in a constrained, predictable environment. Raia Hadsell , head of robotics at DeepMind , Google's London-based AI partner. The San Francisco-based lab. Each connection has a different "weight." Google , the challenges are daunting.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. You were just trying to figure out how to enable conversations.”

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. “Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced ? Analysts are sanguine about this kind of thing becoming more common — someday. .

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