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UPS will make deliveries using Waymo’s autonomous Class 8 trucks

The Verge

Starting now and lasting until the end of the year, Waymo and UPS will collaborate on freight hauling between facilities in Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston. The deliveries will take place in Texas, where Waymo is building a nine-acre hub for its autonomous semi-trailer trucks.

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Waymo is building a hub for its autonomous trucks in Texas

The Verge

Waymo announced plans to build a hub for its autonomous semi-trailer trucks on a nine-acre site near Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. The trucks operate autonomously during tests and commercial deliveries but include two Waymo employees, a commercially licensed driver, and a software engineer, who sit in the cab and monitor the driving.

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Waymo teams up with trucker JB Hunt on autonomous freight hauling in Texas

The Verge

The test will take place in Texas, with Waymo’s Class 8 autonomous truck hauling goods along Interstate 45 between facilities in Houston and Fort Worth for one of JB Hunt’s customers. If everything goes smoothly, Waymo and JB Hunt could decide to work together on more freight hauls in the future.

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NetSquared Celebrates Progress and Looks Forward to 2015

Tech Soup

Arlington, Texas: Dallas-Fort Worth Nonprofit Geeks. Image Name: Author / License. Houston, Texas: Monthly Meetup. Wednesday, January 14, 2015. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (weekly). Thursday, January 15, 2015. Thursday, December 4, 2014. Saturday, December 6, 2014. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES.

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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

He is currently licensed in Illinois and Florida. 7) Kimberly Niezgoda Kimberly Niezgoda (linkedin.com/kimberly-auctioneer) is your go to licensed auctioneer specializing in charity/benefit/gala live auctions. She’s been a licensed auctioneer in Texas since 2016 and have since called hundreds of various types of auctions.

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Next-gen nuclear startup plans 30 reactors to fuel Texas data centers

Fast Company Tech

In January, Meta also signed four purchase agreements with Spanish renewable energy developer Zelestra to build four solar projects that can help power Metas data centers in the region, currently located in Temple and Fort Worth. The suit asks the court to order NRC to develop a more flexible definition for use in future licensing.

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