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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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Estrin, a computer science professor at Cornell Tech , in New York City, founded the school’s Public Interest Tech Initiative to give students that opportunity. Her sister Judy is a successful tech entrepreneur, and her other sister, Margo, is a medical doctor. The work led her to help found the Open mHealth nonprofit in 2010.

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Audi joins Spoke Safety, Qualcomm, Commsignia to help protect bicyclists through connected technology

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NHTSA reported in its most recent data 846 bicycle fatalities from motor-vehicle-related accidents in 2019—a 36% increase since 2010. Year-over-year, NHTSA reported on-road cycling injuries increased 4.3% to 49,000 in the US in 2019.

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Targray to distribute Golden Light LiPF6-based electrolyte materials to North America and Europe

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Targray Technology International has entered into a distribution agreement with Golden Light Hi-Tech (Shantou Jinguang Hi-Tech Company (USA) Inc) for the distribution of its electrolyte materials across North America and Europe.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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This duo, alongside Timothy Lipman of the University of California, Berkeley , and Alec Brooks of AC Propulsion , laid the foundation for vehicle-to-grid power. Gandhi and White also noted that battery capital costs have gone down markedly over time, falling from well over US $1,000 per kilowatt-hour in 2010 to about $140 in 2020.

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Lightning Motorcycles electric bike with Remy motor cracks 200 mph

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In a 14 August SCTA (Southern California Timing Association)-sanctioned run at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, Lightning—the 2010 land speed record holder—achieved 206.079 mph, topping its 2010 speed of 176 mph. Using a Remy propulsion electric motor, Lightning Motorcycles, LLC.

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Nissan says it will have first commercially-viable autonomous drive vehicles by 2020; across the range in 2 vehicle generations

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In 2007 I pledged that—by 2010—Nissan would mass-market a zero-emission vehicle. Nissan is demonstrating the breadth of the capability of its autonomous drive technology for the first time at Nissan 360, a test drive and stakeholder interaction event being held in Southern California.

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The New, New Transistor

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Alan Doolittle , a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Tech. Jena and Xing, both IEEE Fellows, later demonstrated p -type distributed polarization doping, in 2010, and then dopant-free 2-dimensional hole gases, in 2018, at Cornell. Notably, the device also had very low resistance when conducting current.

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