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EV conversion business profile: British Off Road, QLD

EV Central

As an emerging force on the electric conversion front, we asked British Off Road’s Mark Calder to talk us through what’s involved, pricing and which vehicles are best suited to electromodding. EV conversion specialist British Off Road’s electric 1969 VW Beetle. Why did you start doing EV conversions? What about batteries?

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

Cars That Think

It’s sometime in the near future. Your brother raises the idea of remembering Dad at his best through a startup “digital immortality” program called 4evru. Consider that Microsoft has a patent for creating a conversational chatbot of a specific person using their “social data.” Some of us may view these options as exciting.

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

Cars That Think

Eliza Strickland: Hi, I’m Eliza Strickland for IEEE Spectrum ‘s Fixing the Future podcast. Wendy, thanks so much for joining me on Fixing the Future. And so the idea of datafication is simply to say that our lives are not just lived in the analog or physical world, but that actually they’re becoming digital.

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Weaponized Robots Letter Calls for Policy, Tech Fixes

Cars That Think

We are convinced that the benefits for humanity of these technologies strongly outweigh the risk of misuse, and we are excited about a bright future in which humans and robots work side by side to tackle some of the world’s challenges. We’re not taking issue with weapons systems that are already governed by an international legal framework.

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Tata AutoComp’s ‘Make in India’ push for EVs | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

The idea took shape when the EV momentum was picking up globally. With a captive customer in Tata Motors, AutoComp started augmenting its portfolio over time to meet future EV requirements. For the near future, Tata-Gotion has a collaboration with Tata Agratas — the group’s cell manufacturing arm — in the pipeline.

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Why Rip Off Creatives, If Generative AI Can Play Fair?

Cars That Think

As a result, we are talking about AI ethics issues from the very beginning, even before any sort of code has been written, when it’s just about the idea for the product. I hope that both our past research and future research projects will be able to really help. My hope is that Sony can play a role in those conversations.

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

Cars That Think

Indeed, 2022 may be the year that neurorights becomes a hot topic, bringing the young neurotech industry and the human rights community into uncomfortable conversations. Yuste, a professor of biology at Columbia University who studies neural circuitry, has been promoting the idea of neurorights for nearly a decade now. Spain’s new.

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