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Honda and Ford separately launching smart home demos

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will create the Honda Smart Home US, a showcase that demonstrates Honda’s vision for sustainable, zero-carbon living and personal mobility, including the use of solar power to charge a Honda Fit EV battery electric vehicle. High-efficiency HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) and Lighting System designed by UC Davis.

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Mercedes-Benz unveils EQS electric luxury sedan

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Deceleration is also applied to detected vehicles ahead until they come to a standstill, for example at traffic lights. Available from launch: two special driving programs for young drivers and service staff, some little games and the demo program “The Best or Nothing”. million micro-mirrors. The resolution is therefore more than 2.6

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When AI Unplugs, All Bets Are Off

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The next great chatbot will run at lighting speed on your laptop PC—no Internet connection required. Flanked by on-stage demos, Gelsinger announced the coming of “AI PCs” built to accelerate all their increasing range of AI tasks based only on the hardware beneath the user’s fingertips. Because when you look at it, what is driving AI?

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You can power your home for 21 days with a Chevy Silverado EV and GM’s new bidirectional charger

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Photo: GM Energy GM Energy just debuted vehicle-to-home (V2H) bidirectional EV chargers – here’s how GM’s EVs will keep the lights on. Electrek ‘s Jameson Dow will demo GM Energy’s new V2H products on May 9 and will report back with insights. Customers can purchase GM Energy’s V2H bundle through current GM mobile brand apps.

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Looking Through Mojo Vision’s Newest AR Contact Lens

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First, the demo. The nature of the demo also meant that images I saw were flat; with a lens in both eyes, the images will appear in 3D. All these demos took place in the prototype lens, with me fully in control of them. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen the Mojo lens in person.

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Video Friday: Co-Expression

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Columbia engineers build Emo, a silicon-clad robotic face that makes eye contact and uses two AI models to anticipate and replicate a person’s smile before the person actually smiles—a major advance in robots predicting human facial expressions accurately, improving interactions, and building trust between humans and robots.

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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. ARHT Media , based in Toronto, Canada, and PORTL Inc., The feed to get online can be Wi-Fi, 5G or Ethernet.