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Smart Move

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Smart will be launching a test fleet of 250 electric cars in selected areas, including: Portland, San Jose, Indianapolis, Orlando, and the Washington, D.C. Read more in the article: Smart to Launch Test Fleet of Electric Cars. Here’s the link to the full text of the article, in case the link goes bad: [link].

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The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

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Discovery Center , in Indianapolis. An abridged version of this article appears in the October 2023 print issue as “No Ordinary Orrery.” I made extensive use of my university’s interlibrary loan service to track down articles from Metronome and the Percussive Arts Society. The Celestaphone is a vibraphone with a 2.5-octave

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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For a deeper dive into Pong ’s design, see Hugo Holden’s article, “ Atari Pong E Circuit Analysis & Lawn Tennis: Building a Digital Video Game with 74 Series TTL IC’s ,” Dan Boris’s redraw of the circuit diagram , and Ricardo Ramos’s account of building a Pong clone.). Now you could compete directly against your friends and family.

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Study: Reducing Future Transportation CO2 Emissions to Kyoto Protocol Levels Will Require Combination of Vehicle Technology and Smart Growth

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The eleven metropolitan regions that were studied include Madison, Wisconsin; Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; Minneapolis-St. Article ASAP • doi: 10.1021/es8021655 • Publication Date (Web): 11 February 2009 Stone et al. In addition to Stone, Dr. Tracey Holloway, Scot Spak, and Adam Mednick also authored the study.

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The Day the U.S. TV Industry Died

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This article was first published as “The longest survivor loses its grip.” But according to Peter Bingham, formerly of RCA/GE and now executive vice president for Thomson Consumer Electronics in Indianapolis, it did not help Zenith because “it wasn’t cost-effective. It appeared in the August 1988 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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Deploying Data Science and AI to Fight Wildlife Trafficking

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Wildlife trafficking is a lucrative market. While it’s hard to tell exactly how much money it brings in, the U.S. government estimates it’s in the billions of dollars a year.

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‘Revenge’ Hits Indiana

Revenge of the Electric Car

Director Chris Paine was in Indianapolis this week to film for ‘Revenge.’ Here is the full text of the article, in case the link goes bad: [link]. ’ More details in this TV report: Filmmaker in Ind. for electric car doc. Filmmaker in Ind. for electric car doc.

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