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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

Cars That Think

Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. Strickland: And, yeah, you mentioned a few aspects of how that data is represented that makes it harder for it to be controlled, really. The second thing is, of course, that data are linked.

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Clean Tech - GigaOM - Salon.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

With a price tag of roughly $22,000, BYD’s F3DM — available only to fleet operators at this point — is too costly for companies to go for it en masse. Tags: evdriven. But there’s a bit of a Catch-22: Prices remain high for mass adoption in China. Alex Koppelman Joan Walsh Me vs. G. Watch the debate.

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

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The prototype vehicle, called Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is designed to ease congestion and pollution problems in cities. It is based on the Segway Personal Transporter but holds two people, instead of one, and lets them sit, instead of stand. Cyclists will complain and moterists will complain.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

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Smart grid refers to a number of technologies aimed at gathering more data on the flow of electricity through the transmission grid. Credit: GE) In the Danish Edison project, researchers will try to use simulations and historical data analysis to project ways to best match wind turbines output with car charging. E-mail Martin.

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