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Gogoro introduces VIVA ultralight electric smartscooter; battery swapping

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VIVA leverages Gogoro’s Smartscooter electric powertrain, smartphone connectivity and battery swapping in a lightweight urban design for shorter, quicker trips. Loaded with more than 21 liters of storage, VIVA provides enough space to store a helmet and other essentials. So far, Gogoro has sold more than 200,000 electric Smartscooters.

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Nanostructures Bring Gains for Phase Change Memory

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Engineers in the United States and Taiwan say they have demonstrated a promising new twist on nonvolatile memory that’s small enough, miserly when it comes to energy, and works at low enough voltage that it could boost the abilities of future processors. Yet it’s slower than DRAM, a computer’s main memory, which is volatile. picojoules.

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New “2-in-1” EV unit integrates traction motor and A/C compressor for increased range in hot climates

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Hybrids and EVs use regenerative braking to capture kinetic energy and store it; this requires the conversion of the kinetic energy first into electricity to transport to the battery, resulting in extra energy conversion steps. TECO, a Taiwan-based company, is one of the largest manufacturers of electrical drive technology.).

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Ford unveils new 2015 Focus four-door sedan; 1.0L EcoBoost with start/stop comes to US model

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These include a new shock absorber valve design providing improved interior quietness, and a change to the rear suspension to give drivers a more connected feel to the road. The electric power-assisted steering has been retuned to make the driver feel even more connected to the road. Enhanced SYNC AppLink.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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3 Ways 3D Chip Tech Is Upending Computing

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In CPUs, these links have mostly been so-called 2.5D, where the chiplets are set beside each other and connected using short, dense interconnects. But to sling truly huge volumes of data around as if it were all on the same chip, you need even shorter and denser connections, and that can be done only by stacking one chip atop another.

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How Purdue University Commercializes Its Research

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Over the past several years, his research has included collecting and analyzing data from networked cameras in department stores, optimizing how they place their products, and assessing COVID-19 lockdown compliance based on multinational camera data. I still do research, of course," Lu notes. "In in EE in 2002, both from Stanford.