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Tesla Cybertruck drawing crowds with Boston Marathon display

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A Tesla Cybertruck is now on display outside of a showroom in Boston, Massachusetts, and photos and video footage of the site show that the unique electric vehicle (EV) has been drawing some crowds. The display launched on Sunday and will remain through tomorrow during the Boston Marathon. It’s attracting a decent size crowd.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. candidate in computational imaging at BU, Greene continues to be involved with the honor society by mentoring grad students and organizing events to engage alumni. Now a Ph.D.

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Q&A: Boston Dynamics on Atlas’s Parkour Skills

Cars That Think

Yesterday's video from Boston Dynamics showing a pair of Atlas robots doing parkour together is already up to nearly 3 million views, and for good reason. And happily, Boston Dynamics had answers! But there are of course limits—parkour on ice probably wouldn't work.

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Hyundai Motor Group puts Spot to work at Kia’s plant in South Korea

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The Robot is based on Boston Dynamics’ quadruped robot, Spot, with applied artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous navigation, teleoperation technologies, and computing payload (AI Processing Service Unit) developed by the Group’s Robotics Lab for the Robot’s usage in various industrial tasks.

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NTSB update on Boeing 787 fire incident in Boston; severe fire damage to APU battery

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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released an update on its formal investigation of Monday’s fire aboard a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 at Logan International Airport in Boston. Further investigative updates will be issued as events warrant. There were no passengers or crew on board at the time.

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The Buck Stops With Who? Reuters Events Confront Scope 3 Emissions in Hard-To-Abate Sectors.  

Baua Electric

Reuters Events Confront Scope 3 Emissions in Hard-To-Abate Sectors. Companies are getting on board, with 81% of businesses surveyed by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) measuring their direct emissions “to some extent” in 2021. Reuters Events Confront Scope 3 Emissions in Hard-To-Abate Sectors. The Buck Stops With Who?

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Here’s how deep geothermal drilling might be clean energy’s future

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Matt Houde, cofounder at Quaise Energy , explained its potential at the TED X Boston Planetary Stewardship Event last week. Quaise Energy is on a mission to prove that deep geothermal drilling could provide more than enough clean energy to meet the world’s needs as we move away from fossil fuels.

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