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San Francisco Traffic Stands Still After Cruise AVs Stall in North Beach

The Truth About Cars

According to the Los Angeles Times , nearly a dozen driverless vehicles operated by General Motors’ Cruise stopped late Friday night on Vallejo Street in the North Beach bar and restaurant district. It’s unethical and immoral but legal,” he continued. Bottom line, this all goes to Gov. Gavin Christopher Newsom.”

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

Cars That Think

By 1980, customers in many industries were telling their IBM contacts to enter the fray. The product also had to attract corporate customers, although it was unclear how many of those there would be. Corporate users who did not want to rely on their company's centralized data centers began turning to these new machines.

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America’s lithium laws fail to keep pace with rapid development – ET Auto

Baua Electric

These legal ambiguities are the latest impediment – alongside technical challenges and sagging commodity prices – to America’s plans to produce more of its own lithium and wean the country off foreign supplies, according to interviews with regulators from seven U.S.

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COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans

Green Car Congress

The declaration is not legally binding and is focused on a global level. Iberdrola; Ingka Group/IKEA; LeasePlan Corporation; National Grid; Novo Nordisk; Openreach; Sainsbury’s; Siemens; SK Networks; Sky UK Limited; SSE; Tesco; Uber Technologies Inc.; Unilever; Vattenfall; Zenith; Zurich. Financial institutions: Aviva; NatWest.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

Ted Hoff is part of electronics industry legend. His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye.

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Fakes: Not an Internet Thing, a Human Thing

Cars That Think

It comes out of the military world, and it’s being co-opted by large corporations who move in and say, ‘ This is going to be a space for commerce. Some of these people were breaking into computer systems illegally, though others were exploring the technology in legal, yet unconventional ways. You can’t trust everybody, you know?

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

Cars That Think

Subscribers whose phones were tapped at the time of the raid included a range of New York commercial interests, with assets both large and small: a modeling agency and an insurance company; an art gallery and a lead mining company; and perhaps most sensationally, two publicly traded pharmaceutical corporations with competing patent interests.