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Rivian hires former Porsche exec Kjell Gruner as gross sales eminent

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The corporate’s accumulation worth is up just about 50 p.c Rivian stated that Gruner serves at the board of Livewire, an electrical bike producer, the German American Chamber of Trade of the Southern United States and the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Trade. meeting plant and delivered 12,640.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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I bought them from a junk store, and maybe paid $2 for them. BASF, a German chemical manufacturer, has a somewhat similar corporate history and logo design to fellow thick-Helvetica enthusiast 3M. Its former corporate parent 3M, meanwhile, has a market cap of $51.33 based on Pfluemer’s magnetic-tape invention. inch floppy.

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Air Products’ Hydrogen and Technology in Materials Handling Demo at Fourth Defense Warehouse

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Air Products is a subcontractor on this project to the Center for Transportation & the Environment (CTE) in Atlanta, Ga. The generated hydrogen will be compressed and stored in Air Products’ tube trailers for transportation across the Base to a dispensing location to support the forklift and bus fuelings.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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The winning project proposals (by award amount) are: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Georgia: $10,800,000. Greater Lafayette Public Transportation Corporation, Indiana: $2,180,000. Delaware Transit Corporation, Delaware: $1,500,000. Of that, $26.5 Chicago Transit Authority, Illinois: $1,500,000.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. But the development of today’s graphical user interface was anything but simple.

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