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Driving Dystopia: More Companies Found Covertly Sharing Driving Data, Raising Insurance Rates

The Truth About Cars

With corporate media finally aware of the perils of connected vehicles, we’ve seen a rash of articles exploring how insurance rates have spiked due to automakers sharing user data. The entire business model is predicated upon this, minus the fact that it became a legal requirement to drive in most states by 1970.

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

Cars That Think

It also states that neural data will be considered equivalent to a human organ—which would prohibit the buying or selling of such data. Legal scholars working with the NeuroRights Foundation say the right to mental privacy is under the most imminent threat. Neuroscience is not just another field of knowledge,”. Staff attorney.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

Cars That Think

Moreover, company executives thought Whittingham’s concept was unlikely to ever be broadly successful. They asked company cofounder Nikola Marincic to turn the slurries into cylindrical cells, like the kind someone might buy for a flashlight. But by the late 1970s, Exxon’s interest in oil alternatives had waned.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. This concept is often called “additionality.” Perspective by Brian J. Donovan, CEO of Renergie, Inc.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." The result, called Jam, for John and Martin, proved the concepts he brought from Evans & Sutherland were appropriate for laser printing. Gee,’ I said, ‘A secret standard—I find this a hard concept to understand.’” of Cupertino, Calif.)

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Fisker considers expanding production with Magna International

Teslarati

The company has not updated customers regarding specifics (legal compliance, production scheduling, or the aforementioned “vehicle testing”), but time is drawing near for the company to start meeting demand. What do you think of the article? Using another plant, particularly located within the U.S.,

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News. While a research manager at Intel Corp., It appeared in the February 1994 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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