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Volvo Cars brings Hazard Light Alert and Slippery Road Alert to the US

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From model year 2021, Hazard Light Alert and Slippery Road Alert will allow certain Volvo cars to communicate with each other and automatically alert other Volvo drivers via a cloud-based network when the vehicle’s hazard lights are turned on or low friction is detected, and the system is properly connected to the internet.

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Infineon buys Wolfspeed Power for $850M cash; power semiconductors for electromobility

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Wolfspeed is based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, and has been a part of Cree for almost three decades. This will accelerate the market introduction of these innovative technologies, addressing the needs of modern society – such as energy efficiency, connectivity and mobility.

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Detect Quakes With “Raspberry Shakes”

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Actually, a whole community of (mostly) amateur seismologists had, using a Raspberry Pi–based device called a Raspberry Shake , developed in 2016 by a group in tectonically active Panama. I consulted a Web page that shows a seismic station near my home in North Carolina. On 29 August, there was a magnitude-5.5

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USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

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The output of these processing stations is connected to an array of catalysts. Construction of the initial plant is expected to be completed by the end of 2015 with commercial operations beginning in early 2016. USDA has awarded conditional commitments for other plants in Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina and Oregon.

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Let Robots Do Your Lab Work

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One, we just did a workshop at the University of— sorry, North Carolina State University about that very problem, right? And we were the first ones to do that for material science in our 2016 publication. So having direct Python connects so that you don’t— currently it’s programmed in C#. How would that look like?

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