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Mercedes pay+ turns the car into a payment device; Visa technology

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Visa Cloud Tokens provide an additional layer of security as they help to protect and encrypt sensitive payment information by converting data and storing it securely. In addition, the Mercedes me Store offers the ability to unlock pre-installed hardware components easily on-demand by fingerprint in the car.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge EV to start at $53,990 in US before qualifying tax incentives

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Volvo Car Group is the first company to team up with Google on integrating an infotainment system powered by Android, with the Google Assistant, Google Maps and the Google Play Store built-in. The two companies have been development partners for the past several years.

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Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans

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Theyre far faster than the robots, and theyre able to store items in pods at much higher densities. When youre a person doing this task, youve got a buffer of 20 or 30 items, and youre looking for an opportunity to fit those items into different bins, and having to remember which item might go into which space.

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IBM releases fifth annual Next Five in Five list of near-term significant innovations; personalized routing for commuting/transportation makes the cut

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Of the five, only one is directly transportation-related: Commuters will be able to quickly access personalized recommendations that help them avoid the congestion issues they routinely face and help them get where they need to go in the fastest time. The full list of five is: Your commute will be personalized. Personalized routing.

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Cracow signs $40M order for 50 Solaris electric buses

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Energy will be stored in high density Solaris High Energy+ batteries. The latest buses for Cracow will feature a monitoring system, a passenger information system, air-conditioning, USB charging ports and an electric heating system. The ramps will be installed at the second door. owacki Avenue, Adam Mickiewicz Avenue, Zygmunt Krasi?ski

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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In an email obtained through a federal Freedom of Information Act request, the lead investigator wrote Singh, “We are currently working a possible Search and Rescue Hoax in Maine and were wondering if you could compare the voice in the MP3 file with the voice making the radio calls in the WAV files?” A 2020 U.S.

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BMW Research, EURECOM and Technische Universität München collaborating on connected vehicle research

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BMW Forschung und Technik GmbH and EURECOM, which have been partnering for six years on the integration of intelligent information and communication technologies in vehicles, have expanded their cooperation with a focus on next-generation mobile networks for use in the networked vehicle. Click to enlarge.

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