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Toyota and Google Cloud partner to bring AI-powered speech services to Toyota and Lexus vehicles without the cloud

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Customers can now experience the first results of the partnership in the latest generation Toyota Audio Multimedia and Lexus Interface infotainment systems, including in 2023 models such as the Toyota Corolla family, Tundra and Sequoia and Lexus NX, RX and all-electric RZ.

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Tesla Cybertruck sighted with apparent Starlink Mobility dish

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Some units have been sighted with a faux Ford F-150 wrap, and another has been spotted with a loud green Toyota Tundra wrap. Starlink advertises its Flat High Performance dish as an ideal solution for industries such as trucking, buses, shuttles, and emergency response.

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Toyota launches Collaborative Safety Research Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan

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The collaborative research will pursue integrated ways to enhance safety, involving the vehicle, driver and traffic environment. TTC has helped develop the Avalon, Camry, Sienna, Solara, Tundra and Venza vehicles for the North American market.

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Chevron leveraging information technology to optimize thermal production of heavy oil with increased recovery and reduced costs

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Oil price volatility has in the past been a significant deterrent to heavy oil project investment by industry, particularly by smaller independent producers, the DOE notes. Using thermal recovery processes in heavy oil reservoirs depends largely on. incremental oil recovered; heavy oil carries a lower market price than lighter oils.

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Opinion: Busting The “Canadian Bakken” Myth

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In truth, energy industry followers would do better to read a more subdued story in Bloomberg News , titled “Drop in oil prices means no drilling in Canada’s biggest shale reserves.” Indeed that is the question on the minds of oil investors as they digest the latest numbers of potential barrels of oil under the Arctic tundra.

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The Quest for a DNA Data Drive

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Readable genomic DNA has been recovered after having been frozen in the tundra for 2 million years. The entire DNA synthesis industry would need to grow by approximately 4 orders of magnitude just to compete with a single tape drive. DNA is an intrinsic part of life on this planet.

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