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Celebrating the Life of Columbia Professor Stephen Unger

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He retired in 2005. Unger’s personal blog, “ Ends and Means ,” addressed ethical questions surrounding education, electronic voting, robotics, and other topics. While there, he led the team that developed software tools that supported the first electronic telephone switching system.

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Toyota's EV Battery Production Efforts are Looking Up

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The company already owned 60 percent of Primearth, starting with a 40 percent stake when it was founded in 1996, climbing to 60 percent in 2005. The Japanese auto giant recently announced its acquisition of Primearth EV Energy from Panasonic, which it said would give it a significant boost toward EV battery mass production.

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Report: Mazda MX-5 ‘Miata’ Running With Special Editions Before EV Replacement

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While the model has been given limited edition variants in the past and even a 2005 MazdaSpeed version (below) that stands as the only MX-5 ever to receive a factory turbo, the current generation hasn’t seen that many wild variants and is about to have its 10th birthday.

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The Final Chrysler 300 Recently Rolled Off the Production Line

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It returned in the late 1990s and got further updates in 2005 with a Hemi V8 and later in 2014 with the 6.4-liter Chrysler has a long history, with the 300 dating back to the 1950s. It ran for several years before taking a nearly 30-year hiatus from the market. liter engine seen today.

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Hagerty's 2024 Bull Market List Has a Few Surprises

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Hagerty’s 2024 list includes: ·& & & & & 1997-2002 Plymouth Prowler ·& & & & & 1964-1966 Ford Thunderbird ·& & & & & 1981-1986 Jeep CJ-8 Scrambler ·& & & & & 1965-1970 Chevrolet Impala SS ·& & & & & 2000-2005 Jaguar XKR ·& & & & & (..)

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Learn About the Candidates Running for 2023 President-Elect

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He is a regular contributor on digital storage for the Forbes blog and other news outlets. In 2005 he was appointed as a Fellow of the Japan Science and Technology Agency ’s Center for Research and Development Strategy. He is the author of Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics: The Essential Guide , which is in its second edition.

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Building Better Qubits

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“We had one year to scale organic LEDs to make a 20-inch display in three different colors with pixel sizes of 100 micrometers by 300 micrometers,” Riel said in a 2021 interview for IBM’s Research blog. In 2017 IBM released a new transistor—the Nanosheet—that uses the concepts Riel says she and her team developed between 2005 and 2012.

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