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Thisarticlewas originally published byMartin BanksonClean Fleet Report, a publication that gives its readers the information they need to move to cars and trucks with best fuel economy, including electric cars, fuel cells, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and advanced diesel and gasoline engines. New technology raises new legal questions More than1,400 autonomous vehiclesfrom more than 80 companies are being tested on US roads. As they continue to make headlines, their presence raises a few questions about how they might change society....

We learned about two Windows 8 code-names dubbed‘Jupiter’ and ‘Mosh’recently, and as we hoped, more information has leaked. Jupiter and Mosh are perhaps the two meatiest pieces of Windows 8 material that we have heard in months. Don’t forget, Ballmer called Windows 8 Microsoft’s “riskiest product bet.” Microsoft guruMary-Jo Foleyhas dug up a pile of somewhat hard to parse information from a number of sources that outlines the technical aspects of what Jupiter may or may not be....

We are all familiar with theHTC Sensecustom user interface for all our Android smartphones. We found out, however, that the Taiwanese company recently filed atrademarkunder the Trade Marks and Design Registration Office of the European Union that may or may not be the custom UI we will see in theupcomingHTCtablets. “HTC Sensation,” as they call it, has a very broad trademark description ranging from mobile phones, portable computers, computer hardware and software, to even chargers and cases for mobile phones....

How’s this for a way to get into more people’s Google+ circles? Google is currently promoting a Google+ Hangout from the band Black Eyed Peas on its covetedfront page– linking directly to frontmanWill I. Am’s profile. While this isn’t the first Black Eyed Peas hangout (the bandheld onelast week), to our knowledge it’s the first time that a specific Google+ profile has been linked to on the front page of Google – often cited as one of the most valuable advertising spaces on the Web....

Is space really the final frontier? William Shatner has found out afterboldly goingwhere no 90-year-old has gone before. Some 55 years after Captain James T Kirk hit our screensin the original Star Trek, Shatner recently launched to the edge of space aboardBlue Origin’s New Shepard for a ten-minutesub-orbital flight. Aren’t we all adorbs! ??pic.twitter.com/rYyEzOXfy5 — William Shatner (@WilliamShatner)October 11, 2021 Shatner has become the oldest person to go to space, breaking the record set only recentlyby 82-year-old Wally Funk, who travelled on the New Shepard’s first crewed spaceflight in July....