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

Green Car Congress

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

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 VPUU works to transform low-income neighborhoods into safer, more sustainable communities.

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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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Minnesota Plug-in Law

Plug In Partners

The new law instructs the state to buy plug-in hybrids on a preferred basis when they become available and also it encourages Minnesota State University at Mankato to develop a flex-fueled hybrid. The car runs primarily on electricity and renewable fuels like ethanol power the engine.

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Why AI Should Move Slow and Fix Things

Cars That Think

Buolamwini: I cannot stress the importance of documentation. Just as important is also acknowledging the gaps, so AI tools are not presented as working in a universal manner when they are optimized for just a specific context. Where they’re expected to produce results that measure up against standard benchmarks?

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

Cars That Think

The Center for Security & Emerging Technology , at Georgetown University, notes in its AI policy newsletter that the blueprint is accompanied by. But, as the document acknowledges, the blueprint is a non-binding white paper and does not affect any existing policies, their interpretation or their implementation. government policy.”