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BASF to build engineering plastics and thermoplastic polyurethanes plants at new $10B Verbund site in Zhanjiang

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As part of the company’s plan to implement a comprehensive smart manufacturing concept at the Verbund site based on cutting-edge technologies, the new plants will utilize automated packaging, high-tech control systems, and automated guided vehicles.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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And part of the change involves extending the city’s EV-charging network. “We Their initial idea was that garaged vehicles would have a two-way computer-controlled connection to the electric grid, which could receive power from the vehicle as well as provide power to it. This is good for the grid. Kempton and Letendre’s.

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Volvo XC40 Recharge and Polestar 2: EV cousins offer different takes on “premium”

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This isn’t the connection utility that lets you run some phone apps through the car’s screen; Android software actually powers the interfaces for phone, navigation, and other functions—including truly excellent voice recognition. The overall impression we took away was of riding in a very expensive, very high-tech automotive running shoe.

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Keeping Moore’s Law Going is Getting Complicated

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The only way to keep up computing’s exponential pace now is a scheme called system technology cooptimization (STCO), argued researchers at ITF World 2023 last week in Antwerp, Belgium. as the Belgium-based nanotech research organization is calling it, is a complicated vision. See “ 3 Ways 3D Chip Tech is Upending Computing ”.]

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Peugeot unveils autonomous plug-in hybrid INSTINCT Concept; Samsung ARTIK Cloud for IoT; Sentiance for data analysis

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Internet of Things) connects the devices drivers use every day and aggregates the data. ARTIK can connect to the home to communicate with smart television, audio streaming, home assistant, PC and other devices. ARTIK can connect to the home to communicate with smart television, audio streaming, home assistant, PC and other devices.

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Eavesdropping on the Brain with 10,000 Electrodes

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That would mean building a digital probe long enough to reach any part of the thinking organ, but slim enough not to destroy fragile tissues on its way in. That Moore’s Law–like pace of progress has been driven in large part by the use of commercial-scale CMOS and MEMS fabrication processes, and we see it continuing. Fred Loosen/Imec.

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Canoo Pickup, Kia EV6, Honda and Mini EV Plans: EV Week in Review – Mar 9-15

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inch wheelbase, the Canoo is roughly the same length as compact pickups were more than 20 years ago—when the engine bay was part of the packaging. That facility was previously used by electric car manufacturer Green Tech Automotive. Austria, Belgium, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg and Malta also signed up.

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