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Help! Air Canada Ruined Our Trip to Ireland but Won’t Take the Blame.

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Dear Tripped Up, Last September, my husband and I left our kids with their grandparents and set off to Ireland. We had boarded our connecting flight in Toronto (and I was already dozing in my seat) when the captain announced an operator had crashed the jet bridge into the starboard engine. regulations?

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Mayor of London launches England’s first hydrogen double-decker buses

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The buses were manufactured by Wrightbus in Northern Ireland, and the gas cylinders are manufactured by Luxfer in Nottingham. From 2023, the hydrogen will be even greener as it will be produced by electrolysis powered by a direct connection to an offshore windfarm.

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BMW updates BMW Connected with expanded services, device support and availability

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The personal mobility companion BMW Connected already comprises many functions designed to help users with their daily mobility needs. Using the Open Mobility Cloud as a basis, it connects touchpoints such as smartphones and smartwatches with users’ cars, thus weaving the car into their digital lives.

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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

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A Sea-Monster-Proof Internet The initial segment of what will be the first underwater fiber-optic link to skirt the North Pole, connecting Japan and Europe, will light up in early 2023. This stretch, called Iris, will link Iceland to Ireland. But now, Électricité de France (EDF) says they are in the final stretch.

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BT Group Converts Telecom Infrastructure to EV Chargers

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BT Group says more cabinets in Scotland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland will be repurposed in the coming months—as many as 600 such conversions by the end of 2024. kilowatt AC connections that will each provide a full charge of a vehicle’s battery in 6 to 8 hours. BT Group’s design will allow each street cabinet to offer two 7.4-kilowatt

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Shearwater Energy developing SMR wind-hybrid energy project; selects NuScale Power

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Shearwater has also submitted an outline proposal to the British Government and the devolved governments of Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, all of whom stand to derive economic benefits in connection with the proposed project. Shearwater has selected the SMR technology being developed by NuScale.

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Evolution of In-Vehicle Networks to Zonal Architecture

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As the automotive industry develops vehicles with increased levels of autonomous driving requiring more sensors and increased connectivity, it faces the challenge of transporting and processing a huge amount of data in the vehicle.