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BMW uses GPS to predict your shifts

BMW says they are in later stages of developing a transmission system that uses GPS data to predict your upcoming shifts. Parts of this system include the Dynamic Stability Control (DSC) system, and the GPS navigation system.
DSC collects data real t…

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ARM licenses CPU/GPU combo to Shanghai firm – EETimes.com

EDN.comARM licenses CPU/GPU combo to Shanghai firmEETimes.comLONDON – Shanghai InfoTM Micro-electronics has licensed a series of intellectual property cores from ARM Holdings plc, including the ARM11 processor core, Cortex-A5 and Cortex-A9 processor …

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Microsoft, Toyota Announce $12 Million Partnership for “Ultimate Mobile Device”

Smartphones, MP3 players, tablets, laptops, netbooks–modern consumers never leave the house without more electronics than Robocop. We’re addicted to using and spending money on mobile devices, which might explain why automakers lately can’t stop tryi…

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Feature: In-car computing, smartphones, and the future of cars

Over the course of our series on the Future of Cars, a clear picture has emerged of where traffic flow is headed in the next few years. If today’s traffic is like a bloom of bacteria that responds collectively to changes in the …

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Car Connectivity Consortium forms to bring more smartphones to more interiors

Though Terminal Mode has always been an open standard we’ve never really seen any tech companies outside of Espoo show much interest in the stuff, which lets a car mirror a phone’s display. When Nokia sort of shifted gears and signed on with Microsoft…

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To Groupon Or Not To Groupon?

In light of recent sobering stats, here’s a checklist every merchant should consider before talking to a daily deal or group coupon service.

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ARM Chips Designed For 480-Core Servers

angry tapir writes “Calxeda revealed initial details about its first ARM-based server chip, designed to let companies build low-power servers with up to 480 cores. The Calxeda chip is built on a quad-core ARM processor, and low-power servers could have…

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Go West, Foxconn

The iPhone manufacturer plans to move its primary plant inland, in search of cheaper labor. It’s workforce will soon hit 1.4 million. Foxconn, the world’s largest maker of computer components, revealed plans to move some 200,000 jobs inland. Currently,…

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Feature: All this has happened before: NVIDIA 3.0, ARM, and the fate of x86

At a dinner this week with members of the press, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang laid out his view of NVIDIA’s past, present, and future in light of recent developments in the processor market. Jen-Hsun’s remarks are worth looking at…

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How Bill Gates’ Favorite Teacher Wants to Disrupt Education

Gates- and Google-funded Sal Khan seeks to make his popular YouTube lessons universally accessible, and change the nature of education in the process.

In 2008, Sal Khan was offered a $330 million hedge fund. He turned it down to produce low-budget mat…

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