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GM Maven introduces monthly offering for members; vehicles include the Chevrolet Tahoe and Chevrolet Volt

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Maven, General Motors’ personal mobility brand, has expanded its offerings to include a new monthly service, Maven Reserve. Maven members pay a monthly fee to reserve a new GM vehicle loaded with technology for 28 days. Members can download the Maven app to view pricing by market in real time for Maven Reserve.

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OnStar and Google demonstrate concept service for managing charging Chevrolet Volts with renewable energy

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Data from this forecast is downloaded to the OnStar cloud, or Advanced Telematics Operating Management System (ATOMS). The technology is enabled as OnStar receives a signal from PJM Interconnection that shows the percentage of available renewable energy on the grid.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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The interview transcripts can be downloaded here and here. During a visit to Shannon’s office at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in northern New Jersey, he showed the brothers his creation Theseus. The Computer History Museum recently made public its two-part oral history with Sutherland.

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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

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Enraged that upper-class students were given priority to enroll in a computer-science elective at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey , Paras decided to crash the registration website so that no one could enroll. A Hacker Forged in Minecraft Paras Jha was born and raised in Fanwood, a leafy suburb in central New Jersey.

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