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Shelby Mustang Mach-E, BMW M5 spy shots: Car News Headlines

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Aurora Innovation plans to launch a commercial service next year with self-driving trucks transporting goods between Dallas and Houston. You’ll find these stories and more in today’s car news, right here at Motor Authority.

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This App Gauges Your Risk of COVID-19 Exposure in Public Places

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Albert Cheng , a professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston , is developing a smartphone app to help them do that. He is currently piloting the app in Houston and Seattle. In the Houston area, for example, Harris County’s records are updated daily, but only on weekdays.

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IEEE Honors Iconic Engineers

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CERF Google, LLC Reston, Va. ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM LYDIA KAVRAKI Rice University Houston “For foundational probabilistic algorithms and randomized search methods that have broad impact in robotic motion planning and computational biology.” IEEE MEDAL OF HONOR Sponsor: IEEE Foundation VINTON G. IEEE FRANCES E. IEEE JACK S.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. High-Temperature Sensing Electronics for Downhole Smart Drilling, $150,000 NOV Wellbore Technologies, Houston, Texas Wolfspeed, a Cree Company, Durham, N.C. San Jose, Calif. Sunrun, San Francisco, Calif. Vitriflex Inc., San Jose, Calif.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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Zipcars can be found in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, Sacramento, San Diego, Zipcar users have a card that unlocks their local cars San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. In the U.S.

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Video Friday: Robots Solving Table Tennis

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Google DeepMind has managed to achieve amateur human-level competence at table tennis, which is much harder than it looks, even for humans. Imbuing robots with “human-level performance” in anything is an enormous challenge, but it’s worth it when you see a robot with the skill to interact with a human on a (nearly) human level.

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Tesla Gigafactory Texas catalyzes $500M, 2,500 home development project

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Hines, a real estate development company based out of Houston, has plans to develop a $500 million housing community on 1,400 acres. Google is investing $50 million in Texas this year to develop office space. The plot of land will be large enough to have 2,500 new houses and between 1,250 and 2,000 multifamily units.

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