DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist

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 DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF              

By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane


FORD'S MOST POWERFUL ROAD CAR EVER







                                                                    Source:  Ford

  • Ford's most powerful road car, the Ford Mustang GTD, is due to come to market in 2024.  Here's what we know:
  • Its body is carbon fiber
  • It's track-ready and aerodynamically optimized
  • Said to be loaded with new technologies
  • Regarding speed, said to be in the league with Porsche 911 GT2 and Lamborghini's Aventator SVJ
  • Pricing starts at $300,000.00
  • Ford CEO Jim Farley says " we didn't engineer a road car for the track, we created a race car for the road"
  • Has a targeted output of more than 800 bhp from the supercharged V8
  • Designed and engineered in partnership with Motorsport Multimatic, which built the Ford GT supercar
  • As Jim Farley says, "The Mustang GTD shatters every preconceived notion of a supercar."
WORLD'S LARGEST SOLAR FARM OPENS IN MIDDLE EAST

                                                                Source:  Al Dhafra

  • The United Arab Emirates (UAE) just flipped the on-switch for the world's largest, single-site, solar farm.  Here's what we know:
  • Called Al Dhafra solar farm
  • 2-gigawatt solar farm with 4 million bifacial solar panels
  • Will power 200,000 homes
  • Will eliminate 2.4 million tons of carbon emissions per year
  • Developed by Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co., Abu Dhabi National Energy Co., French power company EDF Renewables and Chinese solar developer JinkoPower
  • Increases UAE's solar power production to 3.2 GW
  • UAE wants to triple its renewable energy capacity to 14 GW by 2030.
1st THE BEATLES, NOW AI TO RESURRECT EDITH PIAF'S VOICE


                                                         Source:  Edith Piaf & AI Stock

  • Warner Brothers is using AI to bring back legendary French singer Edith Piaf's voice to life for her life story, 60 years after her death.  Here's what we know:
  • The new biopic is called "Edith Is"
  • AI will enable her to narrate her life story
  • AI will also resurrect her image
  • This is the latest example of AI recapturing the singing voice of a great star
  • It comes after the stunning success of the Beatles' "Now and Then"
  • AI distilled the voice of John Lennon singing the lyrics in old demos
  • AI pulled guitar passages by George Harrison of the unfinished song in 1995
  • Paul McCartney and Ringo finished and just released the song, which is now the UK's #1 single -- all through the magic of AI.


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