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UCOTD: 2001 Volkswagen Cabrio GLX

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Today's UCOTD is a 2001 Volkswagen Cabrio GLX. Our seller says that the car has been well maintained and that there are plenty of new parts, including a Bilstein TC suspension, tires, spark plugs, spark-plug wires, valve cover gasket, cv joints/axles, and water pump. It's based in New Jersey and the asking price is $3,500.

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Used Car of the Day: 2001 Toyota MR2 Spyder

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We're going back to the convertible well today with this 2001 Toyota MR2 Spyder. A Stage 2 clutch has been installed, and some notable parts have been replaced -- the water pump, spark plugs, springs, bushings, and shocks are all new. Five grand will get you a manual-transmission Spyder with just under 100,000 miles on it.

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The James Webb Space Telescope was a Career-Defining Project for Janet Barth

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Congress and launched in 2001. In 2001 she was selected to be project manager for a NASA test bed that aimed to understand how spacecraft are affected by their environment. The Webb’s detectors absorb photons—light from far-away galaxies, stars, and planets—and convert them into electronic voltages.

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Emmy Award Winner’s Algorithms Bring High-Quality Video to Your TV

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Clarke , who penned 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Isaac Asimov , author of the Foundation series. Bovik and his team of researchers created mathematical models of the visual cortex as well as the retina, which converts light into neural signals and sends them to the brain. In 2001 he and his team developed SSIM.

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Norweign Drivers switch to Electric Cars

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As a result, buyers are using the perks which they get to convert to cash. Buyers of EV became exempted from paying VAT in 2001. According to the news report, EV sales will reduce in 2020 and one of the factor is global uncertainity, making people less adapt to change in technology that is new.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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The inverse text normalizer, most often used by text-to-speech tools on phones, converts speech into written expressions. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Seoul National University in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Kim long had hoped to earn a doctoral degree from a U.S.

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Radar Imaging Could Be the Key to Monitoring Climate Change

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It consists of an antenna divided in several parts, each of which has its own receiving channel and analog-to-digital converter. He worked in that position until 2001, when he became director of the Microwaves and Radar Institute. “I Digital beamforming represents a paradigm shift for spaceborne SAR systems.