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Charity expands services with support from mygrimsby fund

My Energi

Members are encouraged to focus on using art and social contact to build trust and encourage personal development to create a sense of positive wellbeing, while rebuilding confidence and self-esteem. The ‘Great Escape’ is a unique heritage restoration project on Grimsby’s docks, converting a historical building into a creative workspace.

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Refugees are up-cycling their discarded life jackets and dinghies

EV Driver

Lesvos Solidarity is a non-profit organisation that not only provides medical support and shelter, but also hosts workshops for refugees in which they up-cycle things such as life jackets and dinghies that pile up on the shores of Lesvos and tell the story of their harrowing journeys across the Aegean sea from Turkey. “

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South Australia Gets Its First PHEV Prius Conversion

Green Car Congress

The Motor Trade Association of South Australia has procured a Toyota Prius which has been upfitted with an aftermarket plug-in conversion, as part of its plans to develop hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electric vehicle training resources for automotive repair technicians throughout the state of South Australia.

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NSF leads $400M federal effort to boost advanced wireless research

Green Car Congress

Among the factors driving the need for improved wireless technologies are the prospects of vehicle-to-vehicle communications to support self-driving cars and increase highway safety; remote surgery and telemedicine to improve patient care; and immersive video and virtual reality content to enhance personal experiences and productivity.

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Mercedes-Benz Vans launches “Startup adVANce” competition for partners for future transport solutions

Green Car Congress

As part of its recently introduced strategic initiative adVANce ( earlier post ), the company is to invest a total of €1 million (US$1.12 Independent startup experts will then invite a maximum of 80 applicants to take part in the idea refinement phase. Personal contacts will be established.

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RSA report Inside the Mind of a Cabbie explores how to influence more fuel-efficient driving behavior

Green Car Congress

weight, personal comfort and journey planning. RSA focused on: Cabbies’ personal views and outlooks: what do they think and care about? themselves as part of the climate change problem or solution? The answers to these questions influenced the design of RSA’s behavior change interventions at a workshop.

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Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI

Cars That Think

One very senior person pulled me aside and warned me that starting Google Brain would be bad for my career. NeurIPS workshop paper advocating using CUDA , a platform for processing on GPUs, for deep learning—a different senior person in AI sat me down and said, “CUDA is really complicated to program.

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