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JANUARY 15, 2015

Chris Urmson, director of self-driving cars at Google, said at the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit that the company has started talks with most of the world’s top automakers and assembled a team of global suppliers to speed its push to bring self-driving cars to market.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Volkswagen Group and Google will partner on research in the field of quantum computing. The two companies will explore the utilization of quantum computers together, with aims to build up specialist knowledge and to carry out practically oriented research. They will carry out this work using Google universal quantum computers.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

The new, Android-powered infotainment system offers customers personalization, improved levels of intuitiveness and embedded Google technology and services, such as the Google Assistant, Google Maps and the Google Play Store. The XC40 Recharge P8 also receives larger software and operating system updates over the air.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

New research from Google DeepMind, described today in the journal Nature , offers a way to do just that. The system, called SynthID-Text, doesn’t compromise “the quality, accuracy, creativity, or speed of the text generation,” says Pushmeet Kohli , vice president of research at Google DeepMind and a coauthor of the paper.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2015

a San Francisco-based company that designs and deploys environmental sensor networks, is partnering with Google Earth Outreach to map and better to understand urban air quality. Today we’re announcing the success of our integration test with Google, which lays the foundation for generating high resolution maps of air quality in cities.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

headquartered in Mountain View, California, builds electric transportation solutions to free people from traffic and decrease carbon footprint. Sebastian Thrun, Kitty Hawk’s CEO, was the founder of X (previously Google X), where he led the development of the self-driving car, Google Glass, and other projects. Kitty Hawk Corp.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2014

Android Auto made its debut at the 2014 Google I/O annual technology conference in San Francisco as the first innovation resulting from the Open Automotive Alliance (OAA)—a coalition of tech companies and auto industry leaders launched in January by Google, NVIDIA, Audi, GM, Honda and Hyundai committed to bringing the Android platform to cars.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2018

Daimler is pursuing strategic research partnerships in the field of quantum computing, and has signed a cooperation agreement with Google in this area. The design of Google’s recent 72?qubit Source: Google. We believe Bristlecone would then be a compelling proof-of-principle for building larger scale quantum computers.

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Electric Cars Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Mercedes-Benz and Google announced a long-term strategic partnership to further accelerate auto innovation and create the industry’s next-generation digital luxury car experience.

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Cars That Think

JULY 19, 2021

Now Google has demonstrated that exponential suppression of such errors is possible, experiments that may help pave the way for scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computers. In addition to building qubits that are physically less prone to mistakes, scientists hope to compensate for high error rates using stabilizer codes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2021

NVIDIA will acquire DeepMap, a startup dedicated to building high-definition maps for autonomous vehicles. DeepMap was founded five years ago by James Wu and Mark Wheeler, veterans of Google, Apple and Baidu, among other companies. AVs, however, require much greater precision. Finally, they must be able to function worldwide.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

Google has announced plans to update Android Auto to reduce the time drivers are required to look at screens. While Google hasn’t gotten overly specific, it has said it wants to place an emphasis on improving safety. Responses will also take into account contextual clues to help build better replies.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2014

AGL is building the industry’s only fully open automotive platform, allowing automakers to leverage a growing software stack based on Linux while retaining the ability to create their own branded user experience. Google Maps. AGL key features include: Home Screen. Media Playback. News Reader (AppCarousel). Audio Controls.

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MARCH 31, 2022

Timnit Gebru was a well-known scholar in the AI ethics community long before she got fired by Google in December 2020—but that messy and dramatic incident brought a new level of attention to her work. If we want to build technology that has meaningful community input, then we need to really think about what’s best. Timnit Gebru: Yes.

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MAY 17, 2024

Google’s Android Automotive software has been adopted by many carmakers for the EV era, but it tends to vary between different brands. This week Google and Rivian confirmed to 9to5Google that the EV-maker uses Android Automotive as the base of its software experience, something that was previously not known.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

Old-fashioned telecommunication carriers are falling behind in the global bandwidth race as global giants of content and cloud computing are building their own global networks. Facebook has commissioned electronics and IT giant NEC Corporation to build the world's highest capacity submarine cable.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

devices similar to Google Glass) in manufacturing. This challenge is one of multiple things GM is doing around the world to change the perception that manufacturing employs old-world techniques to build vehicles. In fact, many new and emerging technologies that are often viewed as fads have practical applications in a factory.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Volkswagen sees considerable potential in using this cutting-edge computing technology for building new applications and business models within the company. In the field of quantum computing, the Volkswagen Group is cooperating with technology partners D-Wave and Google, who provide the Volkswagen experts with access to their systems.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Electric vehicles are becoming increasingly common, with every major automaker shifting away from building traditional gas-powered vehicles. Clearly, EVs are the next big thing in cars, and with that comes many questions from new potential EV owners.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The company plans to install several plants over the next two years with rapid build out thereafter. Investors in CoolPlanet include BP, Shea Ventures, General Electric, Google Ventures, ConocoPhillips, NRG and North Bridge Venture Partners. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

Transportation as a service, or TaaS as it is known colloquially, has been the main focus of Waymo, the self-driving spin off of Alphabet, the company formerly known as Google. Primarily, vehicles intended for Taas duty need to be easy for people to get in and out of. They don’t need blazing acceleration or knock […].

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Tesla is still planning to build electric vehicle battery cells in Germany at Giga Berlin, and faster than previously projected. However, Tesla indirectly debunked the reports, according to German media outlet RBB24 on Friday (via Google Translate): “The U.S.

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DECEMBER 30, 2024

In 2025, China plans to start building a demonstration thorium-based molten-salt reactor in the Gobi Desert. The company in October inked a deal with Google to provide a total of 500 MW by 2035 to power its data centers. After a half-century hiatus, thorium has returned to the front lines of nuclear power research as a source of fuel.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

However, creating detailed maps is an expensive, time-consuming process done mostly by big companies, such as Google, which sends vehicles around with cameras strapped to their hoods to capture video and images of an area’s roads. Roads can be occluded by, for example, trees and buildings, making it a challenging task, however.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2019

Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has been focused on improving transportation for all people by building the world’s most experienced driver. The Alliance of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi has a global footprint and portfolio covering every segment of passenger and light commercial vehicles.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 14, 2025

Managers at Tesla’s Giga Berlin plant told employees that they would be building the new Model Y in-house as early as this week, a report from German media outlet Handelsblatt reported. The post Tesla builds first Model Y ‘Juniper’ at Giga Berlin appeared first on TESLARATI. Now it appears we have more information.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Mercedes-Benz also announced its most recent partnership—the new long-term strategic collaboration with Google to develop and implement a next-generation in-car navigation experience. Place Details provided by Google will be available starting today in all vehicles with the latest generation of MBUX in applicable markets.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Google, DARPA, NASA), that has advanced LENR-relevant state-of-the-art capabilities and methodologies. For energy applications, LENR could potentially contribute to decarbonizing sectors such as industrial heat and transportation (~50% of U.S. and global CO 2 -equivalent emissions).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Regression analyses reveal that communities with higher proportions of essential workers, vulnerable populations (African American, Hispanic, Female, and people over 45 years old), and more coronavirus Google searches tend to maintain higher levels of minimal demand during COVID-19. —Liu et al. —Harvey Miller. They have no choice.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2014

The company’s process also produces a biochar-based product called CoolTerra that has the capability of making the fuel “carbon negative,” reversing the consequences of CO 2 build-up from fossil fuels, the company says. North Bridge Venture Partners and Concord Energy were the lead investors for the round.

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Teslarati

JULY 1, 2024

Excitement for the Jeep Wagoneer S electric vehicle has been building in the United States for the last six months as its 2024 fall release nears. According to Google search data analyzed by Hippo Leasing , the Jeep Wagoneer S has been the number one most searched electric vehicle in the last six months.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2014

The $30-million award builds on a previous five-year, $10-million contract from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that led to several of Virginia Tech’s largest-impact transportation results from the past decade. Serving as co-investigators on the contract will be Dingus, and Greg Fitch, a research scientist with the institute.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2020

In connection with the construction of the new ATC IV building, the solar power generated is used for the charging procedure in combination with a battery buffer storage device. Audi’s largest individual charging park with a power input of 2.1 megawatts is connected to the grid here.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

John Martinis: Well, clearly, everyone's working hard to build a quantum computer. So it's great that people are building larger systems, but it would be even more important to see data on how well the qubits are working. What kind of progress would you say has actually been made? There's real progress. laughing] Yeah, that's true.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The Virginia Tech institute has been building connected-vehicle technology since 2001. In 2013, Google brought its autonomous car to the Smart Road for several weeks of closed-course testing. Focus will be placed on the communication’s format, visual or audible, and the order and timing of such messages.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2023

TAE is addressing the manufacturing and supply challenges inherent in building any new technology ecosystem in part by commercializing spinoff technologies derived from the beams and power management components in the fusion device. billion.

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AUGUST 6, 2021

As of this week (8 August), all of Big Blue's quantum processors will use a hexagonal layout that features considerably fewer connections between qubits —the quantum equivalent of bits—than the square layout used in its earlier designs and by competitors Google and Rigetti Computing. Google didn't respond to an interview request.

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