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More than 300 customers have ordered 10,000 Ford E-Transit electric vans

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Customers range from one-person van operations to municipalities including the City of Orlando to some of the nation’s largest service providers and retailers such as Walmart, which alone ordered more than 1,100 vans. The high-roof, extended wheelbase configuration, referred to as the “jumbo” model, is the most popular.

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How Smart Semiconductor Technology Will Improve Personal Health

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We support a health-conscious lifestyle by enabling smart devices that can help improve well-being and stay healthy longer by making them reliable, convenient, personalized — and secure. References: 1) United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022): World Population Prospects 2022: Summary of Results.

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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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Discussions at chip design conferences rarely get heated. But a year ago at the International Symposium on Physical Design , things got out of hand. The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms. Wash, rinse, repeat.

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Tesla Cybertruck Interior: How the design has changed in the past four years

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From the size of the initial build that made it on stage in Hawthorne, California, to the various configurations that were once planned to be offered, there is one thing that has changed drastically: the interior, which has been overhauled since its early designs for more space and functionality, rather than to seat an additional person.

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

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Cookies are designed to taste delicious, so why measure quality based on something completely unrelated to taste? With these experiments plus a lot of elegant mathematics, Shannon estimated the theoretically optimal performance of a system designed to compress English-language texts. We believe that.

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GM invests $300M in Momenta to deliver next-generation self-driving technologies in China

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Momenta is committed to developing breakthrough artificial intelligence solutions to push beyond the frontier of possibilities today and significantly improve personal mobility experiences. —Julian Blissett, executive vice president of General Motors and president of GM China. —Xudong Cao, CEO of Momenta.

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Tata Electronics begins export of semiconductor chip samples from Bengaluru centre – ET Auto

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Some of these (products) are still in the pilot stage,” one of the persons cited above told ET. A second person said the company is also in near final stages for a successful tape-out of semiconductor chips in 28, 40, 55, 65 nm (nanometre), and some other higher nodes. Commercial production is slated for 2027,” the person said.

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