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In the driver’s seat of driverless cars – ET Auto

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Elon Musk ‘s vision for personal mobility is cars running on clean fuel and driving themselves. It could also avert price wars that EVs are going through. Musk has been struggling to lay his hands on enormous amounts of data to feed AI in cars to be able to drive themselves.

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Challengers Are Coming for Nvidia’s Crown

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Founded in 1993, Nvidia first made its mark in the then-new field of graphics processing units (GPUs) for personal computers. Because otherwise they can’t have fun, even if they have the best model,” says Jennifer Prendki , head of AI data at Google DeepMind. And Google is no longer alone. To get around the U.S.

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GM launches Maven car sharing brand

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Maven’s mission is to give customers access to highly personalized, on-demand mobility services. The global Maven team includes more than 40 dedicated employees from the connected car technology industry as well as ride- and car-sharing professionals from Google, Zipcar and Sidecar. Earlier post.).

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

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Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. Strickland: So we’re going to dive into the digital afterlife industry in just a moment. Strickland: So how do you define the digital afterlife industry ? Wong: Thanks for having me.

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Are Autonomous Buses the Answer for Efficient Transportation and Reducing Emissions and Fuel Consumption?

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Driverless cars are poised to decongest personal car traffic, shrink our eco footprint, free up parking spaces and reduce the frequency of collisions by about 90%. So, how do we bridge the gap between the personalized travel experience offered by the private car, and the compromise of a fixed-route system of mass transit?

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Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

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Opener’s highly unusual, single-seat flier is intended for personal use rather than transporting passengers, which makes it almost unique. Previously, Moore led a team at NASA that designed a personal-use eVTOL and then served as engineering director at Uber’s Elevate initiative. To me, that’s unacceptable.” So who might buy it?

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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Nigeria or Algeria cannot do the same for their oil industry. The US and China take the lead in scaling up the technology, given their large markets, tech-friendly regulatory environments and industry giants, such as Google and the State Grid Corporation of China. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait might, and should be encouraged to do so.

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