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DOE announces Apps for Vehicles Challenge Winners

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Green Button Gamer , based in Boston, Massachusetts, won the Safety Innovation award and Augusta, Georgia-based Fuel Economy Coach received the Fuel Efficiency Innovation award. DOE awarded New York City-based Dash the Judges’ Prize and MyCarma , headquartered in Troy, Michigan, the Popular Choice prize.

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Hyundai introduces 2018 Sonata Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid models at Chicago Auto Show

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Although the powertrains remain the same, the new Sonata Hybrid and Plug-in Hybrid feature a comprehensive exterior and interior redesign, safety, suspension and new and improved infotainment and connectivity features. Next-Generation Blue Link Connected Car System. For example, charging could be set to start at 10 p.m. Car Finder.

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Zinnov: automotive witnessing highest disruption among all industries; ~$6B invested in start-ups in FY 2015

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Tech Mafia—Google, Apple have invested billions of dollars in user experience. are now moving to context and areas of consumer experience with features like IoT and connectivity technologies are becoming the new core. New technologies such as Autonomous, AI, Electric have reached application maturity.

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MIT Professor’s IoT Sensors Make Roads Safer

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Today the Massachusetts company is the largest telematics service provider in the world. This was before iPhones , Androids , and Google Maps.” IEEE has benefited my career because I’ve been at conferences and events where I’ve made professional connections that will last a lifetime.” We showed that it could work at scale.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Understanding that Massachusetts, a “free” state, was not the safe haven he once imagined it to be, George Latimer chose to leave Rebecca and their four children rather than see his precarious legal status put them in the crosshairs of mercenary slave catchers. limited connection with the everyday existence of Black people in America.”

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Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns

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Even his inaugural paper was forced to acknowledge the voracious appetite of neural networks for computational power, bemoaning that "as the number of connections in the network increases.the burden on a conventional digital computer soon becomes excessive.". But Rosenblatt's ambitions outpaced the capabilities of his era—and he knew it.