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SpaceX’s Starlink officially goes online in Indonesia

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“I’m very excited to bring connectivity to places that have low connectivity,” Musk said during the visit (via Reuters ). “We are focusing this event on Starlink and the benefits that connectivity brings to remote islands,” Musk said. “If you have access to the internet you can learn anything.”

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High strength cellular aluminium foam for the automotive industry

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Researchers at the University Teknologi MARA (UiTM) in Malaysia have developed an innovative process to make high strength cellular aluminium foam with help from some salt. In closed cell foam, the pore structure is isolated; the pores are not connected to each other.

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Shell delivers more Brazil deep-water production from Parque das Conchas; 3rd phase of project

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The subsea wells sit in water depths greater than 5,900-feet (1,800-meters) and connect to a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, the Espirito Santo , moored in around 1,800m of water and located more than 90-miles (150-kilometers) offshore Brazil.

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How Continental, a marginal player in the Indian tyre market, plans for big technology-led impact – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Can we have features which are more connected to the driver through the TPMS. The tyre business division, which is taking “baby steps” after setting up the fully owned entity in 2011, has an R&D team which coordinates with technical colleagues in Hanover and Malaysia to develop India-specific products.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

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. Somewhat less credibly, inventors in Malaysia and China have also claimed to be the first to come up with the thumb drive. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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US EIA reminder: Strait of Hormuz world’s most important oil chokepoint; almost 20% of oil traded worldwide

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They are a critical part of global energy security due to the high volume of oil traded through their narrow straits. The Strait is located between Oman and Iran, and connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. —US EIA. Use of the alternate routes would increase the cost of transportation.

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Libertine LPE free piston technology targeting power generation, waste-heat recovery and range-extended EV applications; feasibility study with PETRONAS

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A free-piston engine offers a number of benefits, including optimization of the combustion process through variable compression ratios, making multifuel operation possible; reducing frictional losses because of fewer moving parts; and allowing homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) to be more easily achieved.

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