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Mitsubishi Motors told to pay USD 1 bn over US car crash – ET Auto

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The plaintiff blamed a defective seatbelt design in her husband Francis Amagasu’s 1992 Mitsubishi 3000GT that left him with severe injuries after the crash in Pennsylvania. Japan’s Mitsubishi Motors said Thursday it had been told by a US court to pay USD 1.01

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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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In addition to sharing his time and talents with IEEE, he was a professor of electrical engineering for 35 years at the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia. Laker joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 as an EE professor.

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Why Are We Still Doing What Simon Says?

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In 1976, Ralph Baer and Howard Morrison , two game designers, happened to see a trade show demonstration of an Atari arcade game called Touch Me. The game’s original design featured a square console with four colored buttons—red, blue, green, and yellow—that would emit soft tones when lit up.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. as a researcher specializing in microprocessor design. Rao authored more than 14 books and 400 journal articles during his career.

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Researchers propose reason for capacity loss in metal-oxide battery materials

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However, we need to know what happens over many cycles to design longer-lasting batteries because the structure at the charged electrode is different from that of the pristine state. This study uniquely represents the in situ lithiation of a precycled sample. Previous in situ studies only looked at the initial charge and discharge cycles.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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Allan Alcorn, shown here in 2011, designed Pong as an exercise, to learn about how to design video games. Under the guise of a contract for General Electric, Bushnell asked Alcorn to design a game similar to ping-pong that could be played on a television. If you miss, your opponent scores a point. vonguard/Wikipedia.

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China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics

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Already, hydrogen fueling stations built by China’s petrochemical giant Sinopec , Pennsylvania-based Air Products , and French company Air Liquide have cropped up in Beijing, Zhiangjiakou, and the Yanqing competition zone located in between. This article appears in the January 2022 print issue as “China’s Green Winter Olympics.”.

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