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Ford advises dealerships to not apply markups to F-150 Lightning customers

Teslarati

These actions are perceived as threatening customers by withholding their opportunity to convert registrations to orders.” Some automakers applied up to $50,000 of additional charges on a vehicle, taking advantage of the low inventory but high demand for cars that affected many consumers and companies last year.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

Laser printer A device that, like a xerographic copier, draws an image on a drum, but with a laser beam instead of lenses; applies toner to the charged image area; and transfers the toner to a sheet of paper, melting it into the paper to set the image. Other page description languages are optimized for one of these purposes, not both.)

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

Cars That Think

We hear who you are The methods of automated speech recognition, which converts speech into text, can be adapted to perform the more sophisticated task of speaker recognition, which some practitioners refer to as voiceprinting. As such, there are many reasons to be concerned about its use in the criminal legal system. A 2020 U.S.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I said I would consider it, but that I was really hoping to establish a precedent, legally speaking, beyond Torrance. You’ve got to show you’re going to show that you’re going to build something that’s going to look good – not from the aesthetic point of view, from the building point of view. And this is boring.

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