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Zepto in talks for USD 300 mn raise at USD 2.5-3 bn valuation – ET Auto

Baua Electric

billion when it turned unicorn last year, people aware of the conversations said. The new fundraise plan and contours will be discussed in a board meeting later this month,” a person aware of the matter said. Zepto has about 340 dark stores and over 200 of them are Ebitda positive, according to a person who has reviewed the financials.

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

Cars That Think

We live in an age in which it's cheap to take photos but will eventually be costly to store them en masse, as backup services set limits and begin charging for overages. And we love to share our photos, so we end up storing them in multiple places. Was it not the same person because the friend's jaw was more angular?

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

Cars That Think

You decide, after some months of interacting with the 4evru’s version of your father, that while you are somewhat glad to learn who your father truly was, you’re mourning the loss of the person you thought you knew. Consider that Microsoft has a patent for creating a conversational chatbot of a specific person using their “social data.”

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Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

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In comparison, the Brayton cycle has a theoretical conversion efficiency upwards of 50%. Any person who controls an electrical grid is very cautious about what you sync to their grid, because you could disrupt the grid. The most important thing about this test is that we got Sandia to agree to take the power.

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GM and IBM bring OnStar and Watson together for new cognitive mobility platform: OnStar Go

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The platform will deliver personalized content through the dashboard and other digital channels supported by the OnStar Go ecosystem to make the most of time spent in the car. General Motors and IBM are partnering to bring the power of OnStar and IBM Watson together to create OnStar Go, the auto industry’s first cognitive mobility platform.

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EV fans are using Tesla memes to win over skeptics during recent gas crisis

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Over the past days, images of people siphoning gas off one car into another, as well as people storing fuel in plastic bags, inspired lots of raised eyebrows and laughs among netizens. . Gas cars need fossil fuels to run, so when the supply of gas is compromised, said vehicles could not run. This results in panic buying for some car owners.

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Innovative e-ATV vehicle for the Australian Defence Force: a one-of-a-kind project

EVolution

EV conversions are an emerging sector, and we hope that this project shows the potential behind Electric Vehicles. link] The e-ATV is a unique conversion taking a Diesel ATV and turning it into an all-electric vehicle, prioritising stealth, and manoeuvrability above all else. Our new EV conversion website just launched.