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T&E: Rising use of private jets sends CO2 emissions soaring

Green Car Congress

CO 2 emissions from private jets in Europe increased by nearly a third (31%) between 2005 and 2019, rising faster than commercial aviation emissions, according to a new report from environmental campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E). The report, Private jets: can the super-rich supercharge zero emission aviation?

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Pioneering Calif. broker Bert Boeckmann dies at 92

Baua Electric

” Boeckmann initiated personalization and customization, dubbed “Galpinization” upcoming the dealership team’s founder, Frank Galpin. broker Bert Boeckmann dies at 92 appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News. “He wasn’t about one deal. He was about taking care of somebody.”

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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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Media News Group/Getty Images. By staying focused on new ideas that no other company was working on, Jobs was able to create a vision, develop novel products within that vision, and then do it again and again. On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next."

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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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Arizona State University Professor’s Work to Stabilize the Grid Pays Off

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He is active in the IEEE Power & Energy Society, serving as editor in chief of the Transactions on Power Systems from 2005 to 2011. This has allowed me to not only expand my professional horizons but also my personal horizons. “That’s when I saw the benefits of student membership,” he says. “I I have remained a member ever since.”

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SpaceX Falcon 9 booster completes tenth launch and landing in a year and a half

Teslarati

Beginning in 2022, the company aims to conduct three such rideshare launches annually, operating Falcon 9 a bit like an orbital bus service with the capacity for hundreds of small satellites from virtually any person, institution, or company on Earth – all for the unprecedentedly low price of approximately $5,000 per kilogram.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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Samsung promoted Kim in 2021 to executive vice president of its six Global AI Centers, located in Cambridge, England; Montreal; Seoul; Silicon Valley; New York; and Toronto. He is the youngest person to be an executive vice president at the company. He left for Pittsburgh in 2005 to pursue a Ph.D. And that’s exactly what he did.

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