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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass.

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

Cars That Think

It’s sometime in the near future. Your brother raises the idea of remembering Dad at his best through a startup “digital immortality” program called 4evru. Consider that Microsoft has a patent for creating a conversational chatbot of a specific person using their “social data.” The chatbot would then talk “as” that person.

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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

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AT, in its most basic form, is anything that helps a person achieve enhanced performance, improved function, or accelerated access to information. To give you an idea, this year's attendees included Google, Microsoft, Hulu, Amazon, and the Central Intelligence Agency. The Future of Assistive Technology. Visit CSUN's.

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World Builders Put Happy Face On Superintelligent AI

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One of the biggest challenges in a World Building competition that asked teams to imagine a positive future with superintelligent AI: Make it plausible. We’re just trying to show futures that are not dystopian, so people have something to work toward.” She sees the contest partly as a way to provide hopeful visions of the future.

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Mercedes-Benz launches new private car-sharing scheme: Croove

Green Car Congress

The peer-to-peer car-sharing platform is another example of a CASE strategy project that has advanced from idea to implementation. The relevant app will be available to download from December from the Apple iTunes store at first. Earlier post.). Croove is a smartphone-based platform.

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

Cars That Think

Eliza Strickland: Hi, I’m Eliza Strickland for IEEE Spectrum ‘s Fixing the Future podcast. Wendy, thanks so much for joining me on Fixing the Future. And so the idea of datafication is simply to say that our lives are not just lived in the analog or physical world, but that actually they’re becoming digital.

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Everything You Need to Know about Autocharge

Setec Powerr

It also functions with all existing and future CCS vehicles on the market that utilise unique MAC addresses. Whenever a car connects to an Autocharge-enabled station, its identifier is stored on a whitelist. Not the best idea for data security. Autocharge is also (relatively) simple to implement. and higher.