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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

Cars That Think

We live in an age in which it's cheap to take photos but will eventually be costly to store them en masse, as backup services set limits and begin charging for overages. And we love to share our photos, so we end up storing them in multiple places. But, as engineers, we are trained to ask if we can do better.

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

Green Car Congress

e-Golf customers can drive the vehicle confidently, knowing Volkswagen is addressing the vehicle’s environmental impacts through many stages of its lifecycle from production, distribution and charging. Underground, forest soils and root structures store even more carbon. This goes beyond just selling electric vehicles.

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Everything You Need to Know about Autocharge

Setec Powerr

Unlike traditional EV charging, Autocharge technology allows a driver to simply connect a charging cable to an EV to start charging — without any additional steps. Autocharge works with most (but not all) EVs that accept a Combined Charging System (CCS) connector and support CCS two-way vehicle-to-charger communications.

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Drive Notes: 2024 Acura Integra Type S

The Truth About Cars

Standard features included Brembo front brakes, a head-up display, ELS audio, an adaptive damper system, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, wireless phone charging, and Michelin Pilot Sport 4S summer tires. This car blends better -- though one person did give me the thumbs up as I loaded the hatch with provisions procured at my local grocery store.

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Visteon to showcase e-Bee vehicle concept at 2013 International CES

Green Car Congress

The e-Bee offers personalization on three levels: By region: Using a global base interior structure, the control architecture can be customized for each region. These can include cup holders, wireless charging devices, cameras and other items. The car also features a projected head-down display for accessing basic driving information.

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Volkswagen’s Pablo Di Si: Generation to get ‘again to fundamentals’

Baua Electric

Di Si believes it’s notable that VW’s North American area carve out its personal identification and construct its personal market-based selections. And clearly, I’m additionally studying about our personal group, as a result of each and every group is other. What did you listen from them?

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

Cars That Think

Secret Service claims to be able to identify an unknown person in a voice-only lineup, comparing a recording of an unknown voice with a recording of a known speaker, as a reference. Police later arrested a man named Edward Lee King on unrelated drug charges. A 2020 U.S. Government Accountability Office report says that the U.S.

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