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Autonomous car rules advancing faster than the vehicles themselves: UN body

Baua Electric

Read more The Google-owned Waymo is among several autonomous vehicle startup working towards offering driverless, sustainable and reliable transportation. The forum takes place under UNECE, the UN Economic Commission for Europe, which shapes the legal framework for inland transport. . --> With around 1.2

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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What's at stake is control of international 5G networks, which are expected to transform global communications. Huawei has said it would not comply with such a request and believes that it cannot be legally forced to do so. That's a problem for all governments connected to the network. "If

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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By delivering the migrants there, the masters of the Maltese vessels, and perhaps the European rescue authorities involved, may have violated the international law of the sea, which requires ship masters to return people they rescue to a safe port. billion) a year internally on managing migration, not counting national-level spending.

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Volkswagen Group invested €11.5B (US$12.9B) in R&D in 2014; ongoing focus on electromobility and digitalization of vehicles

Green Car Congress

Speaking on the eve of the Geneva International Motor Show, Prof. It may come as a surprise for you, but I highly welcome the interest of Apple, Google and others in the automobile. This means the Group is already well below the legal limit for 2015. The Volkswagen Group invested €11.5 Earlier post.). —Prof.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. 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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Shipt’s Algorithm Squeezed Gig Workers. They Fought Back

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It collected details about the worker’s pay from Shipt, any tip from the customer, and the time, date, and location of the job, and it put everything in a Google spreadsheet. Some delivery workers have started worker-owned services and have joined together in an international federation called CoopCycle.

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Deploying Data Science and AI to Fight Wildlife Trafficking

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Wildlife trafficking concerns both conservation and global security, with significant effects across the international community. The result will be a specialized search engine that will go deeper than Google could dream of, bringing leads to the fingers of law enforcement that would have previously required huge amounts of manpower.

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