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DOE AVTA Completes 1M Miles of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Testing

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PHEV drive patterns suggest shorter distances per day driving patterns than previously documented. The eTec/Nissan project will document more than 70 million miles of electric drive vehicle operations and more than 1.8 The AVTA also tests other electric drive vehicles such as hybrid electric vehicles and neighborhood electric vehicles.

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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

Cars That Think

For many of us, the Internet is part of daily life. When a Nimble is deployed, users can conduct video and voice chats, stream videos, share files, build and run e-learning courses and websites, create shared spreadsheets and documents, read e-books, play games, and more, completely offline. “If But that’s not the case for more than 3.5

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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Why AI Should Move Slow and Fix Things

Cars That Think

One of the most interesting parts of the book for me was your detailed description of how you did the research that became Gender Shades : How you figured out a data collection method that felt ethical to you, struggled with the inherent subjectivity in devising a classification scheme, did the labeling labor yourself, and so on.

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6 Reactions to the White House’s AI Bill of Rights

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The White House's move is part of a global push to establish regulations to govern AI. The Center for Security & Emerging Technology , at Georgetown University, notes in its AI policy newsletter that the blueprint is accompanied by. The document specifically states it is “non-binding and does not constitute U.S. If the U.S.