30 h. ago Auto Shanghai to showcase electric competition at sector's new frontier

The world's biggest auto show opens Wednesday in Shanghai, with foreign carmakers raring to show they can compete against the ultra-competitive Chinese firms that dominate the sector's new electric frontier.

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36 h. ago Rivian elects Cohere’s CEO to its board in latest signal the EV maker is bullish on AI

Aidan Gomez, the co-founder and CEO of generative AI startup Cohere, has joined the board of EV maker Rivian, according to a regulatory filing. The appointment is the latest sign that Rivian sees promises in applying AI to its own venture while positioning itself as a software leader — and even provider — within the […]

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41 h. ago As Election Nears, Canadians Confront News Void on Facebook and Instagram

Hyperpartisan and misleading content from popular right-wing pages such as Canada Proud is thriving on Facebook as the election nears.

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45 h. ago Electronic skin with unique fingerprint patterns offers enhanced security features

The likelihood of two human fingerprints being identical is extremely low—about 1 in 640 billion. Even identical twins, despite sharing the same genetic information, have unique fingerprints. A new technology now allows us to engrave these unique fingerprint patterns onto electronic skin, with the probability of matching an artificial fingerprint being 10²³² times lower than that of human fingerprints.

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4 d. ago What to Know About Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre, Battling to Become Canada’s Next Leader

The April 28 election will come down to two candidates with starkly different personalities and experience: Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre.

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4 d. ago Special election to replace Fernandes Anderson unlikely after City Council vote

Councilors voted to forgo a special election, even though Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson indicated she would wait until after May 8 to resign. The post Special election to replace Fernandes Anderson unlikely after City Council vote appeared first on Boston.com.

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6 d. ago Electrifying railways cuts black carbon exposure by 89%, study finds

Switching from diesel to electric trains dramatically improved the air quality aboard the San Francisco Bay Area's Caltrain commuter rail line, reducing riders' exposure to the carcinogen black carbon by an average of 89%, finds a new study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters.

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7 d. ago Lucid Gravity First Drive: An electric SUV that doesn’t make compromises

Lucid has spent years working on its second EV — a plush van-like SUV designed to be the category killer that could take market share from the likes of other luxury EV and internal combustion people haulers like the Rivian R1S, Cadillac Escalade IQ, BMW X7, and Audi Q8. The Saudi-backed company’s aim was to […]

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8 d. ago What the SAVE Act could mean for millions of voters, according to a Brennan Center expert

The SAVE Act would require proof of citizenship to be able to register to vote. NPR's Michel Martin asks Sean Morales-Doyle of the Brennan Center for Justice what that could mean for voters.

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8 d. ago Boston city councilors call to bypass special election to replace Tania Fernandes Anderson

Officials, community advocates, and voters have cited low turnout and high costs among the reasons for skipping the special election. The post Boston city councilors call to bypass special election to replace Tania Fernandes Anderson appeared first on Boston.com.

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9 d. ago Why Trump exempted electronics from tariffs. And, Meta's biggest trial begins today

Trump spared electronics from his sweeping tariffs. Here's why he wants to levy semiconductors next. And, the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Meta  begins today.

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9 d. ago Lutnick: Trump's Tariff Exemptions for Electronics Are Temporary

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that President Donald Trump's tariff exemptions on technology products like phones, computers and chips were temporary. The post Lutnick: Trump’s Tariff Exemptions for Electronics Are Temporary appeared first on Breitbart.

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1 week ago Trump Adds Tariff Exemptions for Smartphones, Computers and Other Electronics

A long list of electronic products got a reprieve for now from at least some of the levies on China, which had been expected to take a toll on tech giants like Apple.

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1 week ago Smartphones, Computers, Electronic Devices Exempt from Trump Admin's Tariffs on China

The Trump administration announced that various electronic devices, such as smartphones and computers, will be exempt from the tariffs that have been imposed on China. The post Smartphones, Computers, Electronic Devices Exempt from Trump Admin’s Tariffs on China appeared first on Breitbart.

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1 week ago Thousands of Voters Must Verify Information in Contested Election, N.C. Supreme Court Rules

The number of ballots in question exceeds the slim margin by which the Democrat incumbent, Justice Allison Riggs, won.

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1 week ago N.Y.C. Primary Voters Can Rank 5 Candidates. Many Have Heard of Only 2.

New York City voters have nine Democrats to consider in this year’s mayoral primary, a crowded race made more complicated by the return of ranked-choice voting.

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1 week ago Parallel Systems is building autonomous electric rail for short

The business of moving goods in the United States is dominated by trucks, which handle about two-thirds of the 20.2 billion tons of freight that’s transported annually. Parallel Systems founder and CEO, Matt Soule, wants to change that by putting a modern autonomous and electric twist on the centuries-old railroad system.  The Los Angeles-based company […]

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1 week ago House Votes to Require Proof of Citizenship in Federal Elections

Conservatives have long argued for stronger laws to combat voter fraud, something that election experts say is exceedingly rare.

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1 week ago Google thinks AI can untangle the electrical grid’s bureaucracy

Google, PJM, and Tapestry announced a partnership to develop AI tools to speed interconnection requests through the queue.

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1 week ago AI surge to double data center electricity demand by 2030: IEA

Electricity consumption by data centers will more than double by 2030, driven by artificial intelligence applications that will create new challenges for energy security and CO2 emission goals, the IEA said Thursday.

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