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Google focusing autonomous driving development on mastering city street driving; patents piling up

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Over the past year, Google has shifted the focus of its autonomous vehicle project onto mastering city street driving, according to Chris Urmson, Director, Google Self-Driving Car Project. Google says that its autonomous vehicles have logged nearly 700,000 autonomous miles (1.13 —Chris Urmson. Title and description.

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Volkswagen CES2017 show app previews emerging Volkswagen digital Ecosystem

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Volkswagen has developed a special app for CES 2017, available now at the App Store ( iOS ) and at Google Play ( Android ). This makes it easy to configure personal settings, integrate any services from third-party sources and port them wherever they wish. In the Connected Car, visitors can try out their personal digital world live.

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Ford working with Google Prediction API to enable vehicles independently to change behavior for optimal driveability and fuel efficiency

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Prototype screen shot of Ford’s Google Cloud Prediction. Ford researchers are applying Google’s Prediction API to more than two years of their own predictive driver behavior research and analysis in an effort to enable vehicles independently to change how they perform to deliver optimal driveability and fuel efficiency.

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When AI Unplugs, All Bets Are Off

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The next great chatbot will run at lighting speed on your laptop PC—no Internet connection required. Personalized, private AI so seamless you might forget it’s “AI” at all. The most capable AI models today lean heavily on data centers packed with expensive AI hardware that users must access over a reliable Internet connection.

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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms. It pitted established male EDA experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher.

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Ford demonstrating cloud-based technology to optimize plug-in powertrain efficiency at ITS World Congress

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At the Google I/O conference in May, Ford introduced its research and innovation into using the cloud to predict driver behavior in order to optimize vehicle control systems and improve vehicle performance attributes such as fuel or hybrid-electric efficiency. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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In 1989, General Magic Saw the Future of Smartphones

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The user interface of the Motorola Envoy does that for me, even though I never owned one, or indeed any personal digital assistant. Skeuomorphic design began to wane in the mid-2000s, as Microsoft, Google, and Apple embraced flat design. At its heart, General Magic was attempting to transform personal communications.

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