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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Meanwhile, he wrote poetry, played the flute, became a renowned public intellectual writing about the confluence of art and science, and even taught himself to speak French well enough to supervise an electrical lighting installation working with francophones in Montreal. Stumbling blocks to Latimer revealed themselves to be stepping stones.

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Students Develop Low-Cost Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired

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The technology used in the device includes optical character recognition, machine learning, and Google application programming interfaces. EPICS in IEEE The ability to read under any condition and navigate surroundings OurVision can read text out loud from books and periodicals as well as billboards, posters, and traffic signs.

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Transparency Depends on Digital Breadcrumbs

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But in order for investigators to identify suspects amidst a mob of thousands, it had to cast a very wide net and sought the cooperation of tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Snap and carriers like Verizon and T-Mobile. The writer David Brin foretold a version of our current panopticon in his 1998 book The Transparent Society.

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Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies

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One of the studies showed that it is highly distracting to use hands-free voice commands to dial phone numbers, call contacts, change music and send texts with Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri and Google Now smartphone personal assistants, though Google Now was a bit less distracting than the others. moderate distraction. Strayer, Joel M.

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The Plan for the Waiheke EV

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I bought Gavin Shoebridge's EV Secret's book, Kia Ora mate! after looking it up on google maps, and working out all the distances I'm likely to need to cover, there's really no need for me to have a range of more than 30km. light, with a GVM able to hold the weight of the batteries. and am starting down the path. The donor car.

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Volkswagen outlines a range of near-term technologies for reducing fuel consumption and emissions; stop-start 2.0, 10-speed DSG

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system does not just deactivate the engine when the car is stationary at a red light; it already deactivates the engine at speeds below 7 km/h (4.4 It is also easy to find addresses by Google search and integrate them into navigation. Mild hybrid: stop-start 2.0 and coasting with engine off. The start-stop 2.0 Interactive systems.

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Tesla owner implants a chip to unlock his car and more

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The chips are used for a variety of purposes such as access control, storing data, lighting up under your skin, or storing cryptocurrencies. If you go to your Google location history, it shows you step-by-step where you’ve been.” I was curious as to why Brandon had two chip implants. Credit: Brandon Dalaly.

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