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BYD will sell EVs in Brazil

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“I believe now is the right time politically and environmentally for us to invest in building these new technologies in Brazil,” Li said during an interview while launching the two SUV models on Wednesday. Another factor is the wider range of available EV models.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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Twenty-one years later, in 2015, the IEEE member founded Psyonic , which designs and builds advanced, affordable artificial limbs. The Ability Hand is available in the United States for patients age 13 or older. I loved everything about engineering, programming, and building things," he says. "I Akhtar is the CEO.

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A New Olympics Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance

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Videntis is already selling software that detects falls in buildings, or illegal dumping outdoors, neither of which requires identifying individuals. Indeed, after China’s 2008 Olympics, Ecuador and other countries with mixed human rights records purchased surveillance equipment based on systems displayed at the 2008 Olympics.

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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Even a casual glance at the IMF’s World Economic Outlook statistics for Russia shows the tight correlation since 1992 between GDP growth on the one hand and oil and gas output, exports, and prices on the other (economic series available here ). by Dalan McEndree for Oilprice.com. percent of GDP in 2014.

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