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Tesla patent outlines system to actively monitor improper seatbelt use

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One such example was demonstrated by Consumer Reports recently when the magazine decided to show exactly how drivers could trick Tesla’s Autopilot driver-monitoring systems. . Teslas are already safe to begin with, thanks to their all-electric design that gives them a low center of gravity and generous crumple zones.

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Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

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If electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft do manage to revolutionize transportation, the date of 5 October 2011, may live on in aviation lore. And the company Leng founded, Opener, could beat all of them by making its first deliveries—which would also be the first for any maker of an eVTOL. It’s also a triumph of engineering.

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Punching above its weight

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I’m very grateful to the EVA for the award I received, and we’re all especially honored to receive the best chapter distinction,” Erb said, noting that the Asheville chapter launched in 2014 with the hosting of its first National Drive Electric Week (NDEW) event. “I’m We started off with a bang,” recalled Erb.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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Vannevar Bush was the first trained electrical engineer to publicly proclaim in influential circles that EE’s are one engine of innovation and the driving in digital technology. As the early the 1930s, he viewed the entrepreneur and the engineer as twin forces for progress and technological advancement.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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A decentralized cloud would minimize the need to use third-party services to manage and store data on people and business enterprises. The decentralized cloud would allow users to keep most or all their data on local devices, cutting out the middlemen now needed for hosting applications and managing transactions over the Internet.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Goldman, senior vice president of research and development, and said, “All right, go start a lab that will find out what I just meant.“ Networks that link personal computers in offices. So much care was lavished on MAXC’s hardware and software that it held the all-time record for continuous availability as a node on the ARPAnet.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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brought the friendly interface to thousands of personal computer users. During the next five years, the price of RAM chips fell enough to accommodate the huge memory demands of bit-mapped graphics, and the Mac was followed by dozens of similar interfaces for PCs and workstations of all kinds. Cupertino, Calif.,

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