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The Polestar Precept, an electric sedan powered by Android, is going into production

The Verge

The company, which is jointly owned by Volvo and Volvo’s parent company Geely, recently started delivering the Polestar 2, its electric sedan with native Android Automotive, to customers in Europe and North America. Polestar also has teased a deeper integration of Android Automotive, Google’s native infotainment system, in the Precept.

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Polestar’s Precept concept becomes Polestar 5 electric sedan

The Verge

Polestar also has teased a deeper integration of Android Automotive, Google’s native infotainment system, in the Precept. The sedan will recognize the driver as they approach the car and automatically ready their favorite applications and settings.

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How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race

Vox

Nvidia was founded to design a specific kind of chip called a graphics card — also commonly called a GPU (graphics processing unit) — that enables the output of fancy 3D visuals on the computer screen. For most of Nvidia’s existence, game graphics were Nvidia’s raison d’etre. When it went public in 1999, Nvidia had 250 employees.