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India, US working on tech to process critical minerals – ET Auto

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The idea is to identify and develop specific processing technologies for critical minerals through which institutions and laboratories could work together, people in the know said. If the deal goes through, it will be in addition to the US-led Minerals Security Partnership (MSP), a grouping of 14 nations including the European Union.

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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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The competition “allows students to take an idea, a passion, and turn it from a simple prototype to a fully deployed solution,” says Stephanie Gillespie , associate dean of the University of New Haven’s engineering college , in Connecticut. The EPICS contest asked students and faculty at U.S. and its environs.

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Ohio State takes first place in DOE/GM EcoCAR 3 competition

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Teams spent the last four years (2014-2018) harnessing those ideas into the ultimate energy-efficient, high performance vehicle. For the second leg of competition, teams headed to southern California for track events, including autocross, acceleration, and consumer appeal at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana.

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Silicon Valley’s Metaverse Problem

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And Stephenson was looking at real work in graphics tech when he wrote it, so it felt more plausible. Newitz: Yes, it’s a shiny tech wrapped in layers of garbage with monopoly-controlled access. There is something in the idea of that. IEEE Spectrum: This is the latest in a long line of attempts to bring the metaverse to life.

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NDEW: Profile rising

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NDEW 2022 is presented by the Electric Vehicle Association, Plug in America , Sierra Club , and EVHybridnoire. It was a great idea because so many people go down to the market every weekend.” Platinum sponsors are Nissan and Wells Fargo. So many people ride bikes here, it’s really a bicycle town,” he said.

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This Engineer Is Helping to Make India a Global Semiconductor Hub

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Title Head, Renesas -Tata Consultancy Services Joint Innovation Center Member grade Senior member Alma maters Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, in Delhi, India; University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada “The idea is to enable more end-to-end solutions for India as well as other global markets,” he says.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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In Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon , members of the fictitious Baltimore Gun Club, all disabled Civil War veterans, restlessly search for a new enemy to conquer. The fleshy stumps of the world act as repositories for these designers’ dreams of a high-tech, superhuman future.