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Karma Automotive’s flagship store now accepts Bitcoin as form of payment

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Karma Automotive, the Southern California-based creator of luxury electric vehicles and high-tech incubator, is using its flagship company-owned store in Newport Beach, Calif., We are opening our platform to serve as a test bed to help convert theoretical blockchain applications to practical use. —Karma CEO Dr. Lance Zhou.

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TU Wien researchers develop neural hardware for image recognition in nanoseconds

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Usually, visual information is captured by a frame-based camera, converted into a digital format and processed afterwards using a machine-learning algorithm such as an artificial neural network (ANN). From fracture mechanics to particle detection—in many research areas, short events are investigated. —Thomas Mueller.

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Toyota Rumored to Debut Performance Automatic Transmission for GR Models Next Month

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News of the GR Yaris getting an automatic has been swirling since the vehicle came out in 2020 and Toyota started talking about building a novel “GR-DAT” for performance models earlier this year. Unlike a standard automatic transmission, Toyota’s GR-DAT units are supposed to minimize slippage of the torque converter.

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Study: Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops

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Miscanthus and other large perennials offer the best option for biomass production and carbon sequestration, as they feature extensive underground systems for storing carbon and nitrogen and require less fertilizer than annual crops. 2020) “Ecosystem?scale Energy sorghum falls somewhere in between. Moore, C.E., von Haden, A.C.,

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VW Showcases Golf Blue-e-motion at Berlin E-Mobility Event

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NEMP is a German government initiative to develop Germany into a leading market for electric mobility, with about 1 million electric vehicles on its streets by 2020. The electricity for driving the electric motor is stored in a 26.5 Angela Merkel. kWh lithium-ion battery pack. Top speed is 140 km/h (87 mph).

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Toshiba opens Hydrogen Energy Research & Development Center

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The new Center will drive forward the development and demonstration of solutions integrating hydrogen-related energy technologies; Toshiba Group aims to increase the sales of hydrogen-related business to ¥100 billion (US$840 million) by 2020.

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GWU research team C2CNT advances to the final round of the Carbon XPRIZE; CO2 to carbon nanotubes

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These lighter weight alternatives to metals have remarkable properties including strength and conductivity, and are now being used in airline bodies such as the Boeing Dreamliner, high-end sports cars, nanoelectronics, and to store energy in electric vehicle batteries. Illustration credit: Stuart Licht.

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