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Mercedes-Benz announces next-gen eSprinter electric van coming to North America

Mercedes-Benz announces the next-gen eSprinter electric van that will be built on a new platform with more variants. It is also coming to North America. Back in 2018, Mercedes-Benz unveiled its electric eSprinter van and the electric van hit European markets last year. The eSprinter is equipped with a battery capacity of 55 kWh for “an estimated range of 150 kilometres with a maximum payload…
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MobileNews

Google Store starts selling refurbished Nest products in the US

Last September, Made by Google started offering refurbished products at slightly discounted prices. The two initial offerings went out of stock quite a long time ago, and the US Google Store is now expanding the refurbished lineup to include Nest smart home products. In addition to Pixel phones, there is now a “Refurbished Connected Home Devices” section. A used Nest Protect is available for…
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DefenseNews

McCarthy could serve as interim Army secretary in Biden administration

WASHINGTON — Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy could stay on as the service’s top civilian for as long as one year under the Biden Administration, several people close to the president-elect’s transition team told Defense News. The move, if it happens, would likely make McCarthy the rare political official from the Trump team expected to be held over in the Biden administration. The decision…
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AI & RoboticsNews

IBM announces new AI language, explainability, and automation services

During IBM’s virtual AI Summit this week, the company announced updates across its Watson family of products in the areas of language, explainability, and workplace automation. A new feature called Reading Comprehension surfaces answers from databases of enterprise documents in response to natural language questions, assigning a confidence score to each response. A novel module in Watson…
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