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Matching owners with shoppers has gone so far as in-person meet-ups, especially when local dealerships do not have the particular vehicle in stock. “If Far-flung and growing… Before the pandemic, the NBEAA met in person at Thunderstruck Motors , an EV parts and conversion shop in Santa Rosa with a decades-long association with the chapter.

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Hologram-in-a-Box Can Teleport You Anywhere

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In both cases, a person in a studio—the presenter—can appear in full-size, lifelike 3D form and interact with people anywhere in the world where one or more booths are hooked up to the companies' networks via the internet. It was as if Haba was standing in the booth as the two conversed.

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Tomorrow’s AI Will Reason Like Humans, IBM Watson Developer Predicts

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He was a pioneer in the field of acoustics and provided the technical foundation for speech recognition, teleconferencing, MP3 music files, and the efficient digital transmission of human conversation. "I I was very happy and thankful that I got an award that honors a person I knew very well," Nahamoo says. CHOOSING A DIFFERENT PATH.

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What Texas Instruments’ Little Professor Can Teach Us

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They reach out from their exhibit case to spark conversations with visitors: “I remember Grandma having a slide rule like that.” Back in 1980 the Science Museum in London exhibited its Little Professor as part of the Challenge of the Chip exhibition, which encouraged visitors to consider how the tiny microchip was going to change their lives.

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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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The API thus enables the conversion of information such as historical driving data such as where a driver has traveled and at what time of day into useful real-time predictions, such as where a driver is headed at the time of departure. Cities such as London, Berlin, and Stockholm already have such zones.

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200 Years Ago, Faraday Invented the Electric Motor

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Born in 1791, he received only a barebones education at church school in his village of Newington, Surrey (now part of South London). Faraday didn't work directly with Davy and Wollaston on their experiments, but he did overhear a conversation between them and understood the direction of their work.

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Renault-Nissan Alliance and Electromotive to Collaborate on Charging Infrastructure

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Elektromotive, which is based in Brighton, England, started developing charging station technology in 2003 and installed its first Elektrobay charging post in Westminster in the centre of London in 2006. To date, it has installed more than 40 charging bays in London and a further 40 in other major UK cities.