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Tesla investigating executive in internal investigation

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Tesla is investigating an executive in an internal probe, according to a report from Bloomberg. Omead Afshar, the executive overseeing the construction and production of Giga Texas is now the subject of an internal investigation. The Internal Investigation. She plans on buying more and supports Tesla and its mission. .

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Daimler Extending car2go Car-Sharing Program to Austin, Texas; Ramping Up in Germany

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Daimler will bring its car2go mobility concept ( earlier post ) to the US in a pilot phase to start this fall in Austin, Texas with an initial fleet of about 200 smart fortwo mhd vehicles with start/stop functionality. Once a person registers, he or she can open any car2go by means of a card reader placed behind the windshield.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Broadcasting a false distress signal over maritime radio is a violation of international code and, in the United States, a federal Class D felony. As such, there are many reasons to be concerned about its use in the criminal legal system. The alarm was more than just a prank call. A 2020 U.S.

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The Tesla Autopilot Excuse: How EV ignorance created the perfect storm for a misinformation nightmare

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Another Tesla has crashed, and this time, it took the lives of two individuals from Texas. As it is with other Tesla crashes, the Model S crash in Texas immediately caught the attention of national media. This does not mean to say the narrative surrounding the fatal Model S crash in Texas was ironclad, however. Credit: NTSB ).

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Sinopec buying Canadian oil and natural gas producer for C$2.2B; Duvernay shale play

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China’s Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corporation will purchase of all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Daylight Energy Ltd., Eagle Ford shale development in Texas. billion (US$2.13 billion) in cash. In total, Daylight now owns and controls over 130,000 net acres of.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. IBM has its own claim to the invention of an aspect of the device, based on a year-2000 confidential internal report written by one of its employees, Shimon Shmueli.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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From an official point of view, COP 15 is to be informed by the most recent report from the UNFCCC’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), published in 2007. “ We are not aiming to let anyone off the hook. Climate Change And The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

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