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Startup Makes It Easier to Detect Fires With IoT and Flir Cameras

Cars That Think

Fires at recycling sorting facilities, ignited by combustible materials in the waste stream, can cause millions of dollars in damage, injuring workers and first responders and contaminating the air. MIO won the 2016 Innovators Award for industry-best product from Vision Systems Design magazine. Startup MoviTHERM aims to do that.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

Just two people live in its 3000+ energy-wasting square feet. The second copy set you gave us is a little light. I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. It’s just this mind-blowing waste of time. The environment?

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Ford showcasing vehicle-to-vehicle communication for crash avoidance; potential for leveraging WiFi and smartphones to extend quickly the number of participating vehicles

Green Car Congress

A 2010 NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) analysis concluded that V2V systems potentially could address 79% of all vehicle target crashes, 81% of all light-vehicle target crashes, and 71% of all heavy-truck target crashes annually. Connected vehicle mobility applications provide a connected, data-rich travel environment.

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AI-Guided Robots Are Ready to Sort Your Recyclables

Cars That Think

You may feel virtuous, thinking you’re doing your part to reduce waste. That’s a lot of material made from finite resources that needlessly goes to waste. Expanding its use will prevent waste and help the environment by keeping recyclables out of landfills and making them easier to reprocess and reuse. AMP Robotics.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. The most notorious problem was “sparkle,” a defect that caused small spots of light to appear on the display screen. But this wastes 2 kilobytes of RAM. ?“A The freedom that allowed us to do the C-64 project will probably never exist again in that environment.” ?Postscript

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware.

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