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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

Cars That Think

JPEG, like most other video and image compression algorithms, also preserves more intensity (brightness) information than it does color, since the human eye is much more sensitive to changes in light intensity than it is to minute differences in hues. These messages could include references to images found on public websites.

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“Charging Station” — Is That the Location or the “Charger”?

EV Adoption

This requires simple, easy-to-understand terms without jargon, and that leverage consumer’s existing reference point of the gasoline refueling experience. In an ensuing discussion around this “charging station” reference it wasn’t clear what the author meant. 39% assumed charging station refers to the site/location and 43.2%

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Pedego launches three new ‘groundbreaking’ e-bikes including Moto, Cargo, and Trike

Baua Electric

The company referred to the bikes a “three groundbreaking additions” as they offer new performance, technology, and frame styles that we haven’t seen before from Pedego. Referred to as a “sport utility e-bike” by the company, a number of accessories are included to help make the Cargo ideal for carrying children or gear.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

Cars That Think

Before failing eyesight forced him into retirement in 1922 at age 74, he had proved himself the definition of a renaissance man. Sandford decision , ruled that an enslaved person was not made free by entering a state whose laws forbid slavery. Supreme Court, in the 1857 Dred Scott v.

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The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper

Cars That Think

This 1980s earworm of a jingle touted a gadget to turn your lights, your TV, or any other electrical device on or off with the clap of your hands. In 1985, Peter Liljequist and Kou Chen filed a Canadian patent for an acoustic switch for turning lights and other appliances on and off. The Clapper!” 5,493,618 ) is a chatty marvel.

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Tesla owners’ photo mosaic will be sent to space in SpaceX flight this August

Teslarati

Refer more friends while you wait for an alien race to discover your payload,” Tesla wrote. Needless to say, Tesla’s laser-etched photo mosaic is definitely interesting — possibly even confounding any extraterrestrial that may find it floating around in space sometime in the future.

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Land Rover reveals Discovery Vision Concept; emphasizes assistance, HMI, all-terrain technology

Green Car Congress

That information can then be swiped from the window directly into a passenger’s seatback infotainment screen, or—adding in the functionality of passengers’ personal devices—to a docked tablet or smartphone. The Discovery Vision Concept’s headlights feature laser diodes in combination with LED running lights.