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How Volkswagen and Google Cloud are using machine learning to design more energy-efficient cars

Volkswagen strives to design beautiful, performant, and energy efficient vehicles. This entails an iterative process where designers go through many design drafts, evaluating each, integrating the feedback, and refining.  For example, a vehicle’s drag coefficient—its resistance to air—is one of the most important factors of energy efficiency. Thus, getting estimates of the drag coefficient for …

How Google Cloud and Fitbit are building a better view of health for hospitals, with analytics and insights in the cloud

Great technology gives us new ways of seeing and working with the world. The microscope enabled new scientific understanding. Trains and telegraphs, in different ways, changed the way we think about distance. Today, cloud computing is changing how we can assist in improving human health. When you think of the healthcare system, it historically includes …