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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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Lucid Motors, fresh off $LCID listing, opens first southwest U.S. retail store

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The Scottsdale location officially opened its doors on Saturday, August 7th, offering a retail store in the same state as its assembly facility in Casa Grande, which is just 50 miles away. The store is positioned in Scottsdale Fashion Square and is the company’s ninth location, adding to the growing network of Lucid Studios. .

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

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We live in an age in which it's cheap to take photos but will eventually be costly to store them en masse, as backup services set limits and begin charging for overages. And we love to share our photos, so we end up storing them in multiple places. That, however, isn't really true. We believe that.

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Tesla files suit against former engineer for allegedly stealing Project Dojo’s secrets

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Tesla has filed suit against former engineer Alexander Yatskov for allegedly stealing confidential information related to the company’s Project Dojo supercomputer, which the company will be using to train its self-driving neural networks. Yatskov formally resigned from Tesla on May 2.

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Arity partners with Ford to enable more efficient usage-based insurance (UBI) offerings

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Usage-based insurance programs give drivers access to personalized driving data directly from the vehicle while allowing insurers to price more accurately in return for safer driving on the roads, all without having to download an additional app or plug in an OBD (onboard diagnostic) device.

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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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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

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You decide, after some months of interacting with the 4evru’s version of your father, that while you are somewhat glad to learn who your father truly was, you’re mourning the loss of the person you thought you knew. Consider that Microsoft has a patent for creating a conversational chatbot of a specific person using their “social data.”