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Toyota and Google Cloud partner to bring AI-powered speech services to Toyota and Lexus vehicles without the cloud

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Toyota and Google Cloud announced an expanded partnership that brings together Toyota and Lexus next-generation audio multimedia systems and Google Cloud’s AI-based speech services. Google’s Speech On-Device Technology.

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SwRI-led team achieves 20% improvement in vehicle fuel efficiency with connectivity, automation; ARPA-E NEXTCAR

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A team led by Southwest Research Institute has applied connectivity and automation to achieve a 20% improvement in efficiency on a 2017 Toyota Prius Prime. Vehicle connectivity and automation are already being used to effectively improve vehicle safety and driver convenience. Earlier post.).

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Aclima partnering with Google to map outdoor air quality with Street View vehicles

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a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks, is partnering with Google Earth Outreach to map and better to understand urban air quality. Today we’re announcing the success of our integration test with Google, which lays the foundation for generating high resolution maps of air quality in cities.

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Elon Musk’s Starlink secures supply deal from Google’s cloud unit

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In an announcement on Thursday, Google announced that its cloud unit had won a deal to supply computing and networking resources to SpaceX. With this deal in place, Google would be able to help deliver internet services through Starlink’s satellite network. . “This is one of a kind.

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GENIVI Alliance introduces Vehicle Domain Interaction Strategy; open standard, interfaces and code

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With our strong history of architecture and expertise on interface development and integration of software from different sources, the GENIVI community, in collaboration with related organizations, will develop open standard interfaces and code that result in the required domain interactions.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Expands to More Countries

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Among them are 23 former IEEE presidents as well as a who’s who of engineering leaders and technology pioneers including GM Chief Executive Mary Barra , Google founding CEO Larry Page , and Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su. Mentorship and networking opportunities IEEE-HKN’s mentoring program connects recent graduates with alumni.

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IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Vint Cerf

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Together they make up the Internet’s core architecture and enable computers to connect and exchange traffic. Since 2005, Cerf has been vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google in Reston, Va., He returned to MCI in 1994 and served as a senior vice president for 11 years before joining Google. “It

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