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Europe Mandates Automatic Emergency Braking

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That last one works by holding the car within the local speed limit not by braking but by limiting the power the engine sends to the wheels. That’s because it’s moving toward the dream of self-driving vehicles, which demands universal standards. This article appears in the January 2022 print issue as “Brakes That Slam Themselves.”.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Whittingham, a young British chemist, joined the quest at Exxon Research and Engineering in New Jersey in the fall of 1972. Oxford takes the handoff In 1976, John Goodenough [left] joined the University of Oxford, where he headed development of the first lithium cobalt oxide cathode. But he found no takers. And the timing was perfect.

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Black carbon is a much larger cause of climate change than previously assessed; about twice previous estimates, and 2/3 the effect of CO2

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The JGR-Atmospheres Editors decided to provide a platform for this article because we believe that there is great scientific value in reviewing, assessing, and synthesizing a large body of existing literature, and by going beyond the conclusions that any individual paper can reach. In a special comment on the significance of the Bond et al.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

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A scholarly literature has documented this process in fields as diverse as engineering, risk reduction, management, and urban studies. New businesses came into being at a faster rate in the United States than in previous years. Photo-Illustration: Chad Hagen; Original Photo: Universal Images Group/Getty Images.

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DARPA SubT Finals: Meet the Teams

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For a recent recap, have a look at this post-cave pre-final article that includes an interview with SubT Program Manager Tim Chung , but if you don't have time for that, the TLDR is that this week we're looking at both a Virtual Track as well as a Systems Track with physical robots on a real course. USA, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Norway.

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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This article is part of our special report on AI, “ The Great AI Reckoning.”. But this might just be the time when inspired engineers finally usher us into an eternal summer of the machine mind. In 1958, a New York Times article quoted Rosenblatt as saying that "the machine would be the first device to think as the human brain.".

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