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  Luminar and the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team will work together to integrate Luminar’s technology into the roofline of the Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series.
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  LiDAR, which stands for Light and Detection Ranging, uses lasers to create a highly detailed 3D map of the surrounding environment.
• Luminar’s LiDAR coupled with its AI software uniquely enables precise object detection at higher speeds and under adverse driving conditions.
• Luminar and Mercedes-AMG will work together to integrate Luminar’s technology into the roofline of the Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series.

• TCL also demonstrated Dolby Atmos FlexConnect, which unlocks the freedom to place your speakers anywhere you choose for an intelligently optimized Dolby Atmos experience.
• The new online streaming service, TCL tv+, features over 300 FAST channels and thousands of blockbusters from world-leading content studios.
• With a focus on sustainable living, TCL has also recently grown its portfolio of smart energy solutions.
• Its One-Stop Residential Smart Energy System combines PV modules, energy storage, heat pump and EV-charger – which were also featured at CES 2024.

• The Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC), the global innovator in high-speed autonomy, today announced at CES®2024 the launch of its Next Gen Autonomous Vehicle Platform, the IAC AV-24.
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  The Indy Autonomous Challenge the launch of its Next Gen Autonomous Vehicle Platform, the IAC AV-24.
• “More than three years ago the IAC took on the challenge of proving that autonomous vehicles could race head-to-head at high speeds,” said Paul Mitchell, president, Indy Autonomous Challenge.
• With the launch of the Next Gen Autonomous Vehicle Platform IAC AV-24, its digital twin IAC SIM Racing Platform, powered by dSPACE, and the historic global racing events lined up for 2024, the IAC will continue to race into the future and revolutionize high-speed autonomous mobility.

• The capital city, Hobart, had a bit of a “living at the edge of the world” feeling in those days.
• It seemed about as far away from anywhere as you could get.
• A British spy had “secretly” been living only a few miles away in the sleepy town of Cygnet.
• The prime minister followed the exchanges closely, as revealed by her handwritten comments across documents.

• It begins, of course, with the elusive Wright – in my mind’s eye in the 1980s, I had expected him to be a dapper figure in a pinstriped suit.
• In court, Armstrong would face none other than the up-and-coming Australian barrister Malcolm Turnbull, appearing for Wright’s publishers.
• What the papers released by the National Archives provide is something rather more than just a good story, however.

That was then …

• Even the names of the leaders of MI5 were a closely guarded secret, never mind the workings of their organisation.
• It was simply not the done thing to discuss issues of national security in public.
• Advice was offered and arguments made behind closed doors and away from the public gaze.
• In the 1980s, it was still possible for government to believe it might be able to control the spread of information.

This is now …

• Modern expectations of transparency mean that governments are now governing in public, whether they like it or not.
• Where once the heads of MI5 had their identities protected, we now find them striding the public stage.
• Stella Rimington, the director general of MI5 in the mid 1990s, published her own autobiography in 2001.
• Their attempt to quash what turned out to be a rather innocuous book turned it into an international cause celebre.

The Spycatcher saga is a reminder that the nature of British government has changed. It shines a light on the extent to which something seen as an extraordinary public scandal in the 1980s would be seen as far less remarkable today. Modern governments are far more used to the norms of governing in public – for good or ill – in our more transparent age.
Dennis C Grube received funding from the Australian Research Council in 2013 (grant number DE130101131) for a previous project on the public face of government.