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Study using satellite data finds rate of urban growth much greater than previously thought

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The researchers used Landsat imagery to map annual changes in urban extent at a 30 m resolution for the period 1985 to 2015 on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform. The United States, China and India, the three countries with the most cities, experienced different urbanization trajectories. —Liu et al. Huang, Y.,

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Ford installing GE WattStation chargers, charging network at facilities

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Ford will begin installing the GE WattStation Level 2 charging stations across its North American campuses, developing a workplace charging network at nearly every Ford facility in the United States and Canada. The vehicles never went to market, but it marked the beginning of a relationship between the two men’s companies that remains.

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Researchers use Google Street View cars for high-resolution air pollution mapping

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The team equipped two Google Street View vehicles with the fast-response Aclima Ei measurement and data acquisition platform and repeatedly sampled every street in a 30-km 2 area of Oakland, CA, over the course of a year, developing the largest urban air quality data set of its type. —Apte et al.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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Europe’s 125,000 irregular immigrants in 2019 also number fewer per capita than irregular immigrants to the United States, which has just three quarters the population of the European Union yet reported more than 1 million irregular immigrants at its borders in 2019. Meanwhile, the European Union spends at least €2 billion (US $2.13

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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dollar as the dominant medium for exchange in the United States? Here I outline the rationale for such a private digital currency and explain how one might soon take off in the United States. Customers could convert U.S. The amazons could be converted frictionlessly into dollars. dollar—and hence to the U.S.

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A Bold New Plan for Preserving Online Privacy and Security

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For Google to show you your work emails, it has to store many copies across many servers. Even if they’re stored in encrypted form, Google must decrypt them to display your inbox on a webpage. Regulation, especially in the United States, is also lagging. The risks we face from the cloud today are not an accident.

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Detroit’s Inductive EV Charging Roads: Boon or Boondoggle?

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While similar programs have been pioneered in Europe, Detroit is the first and only city to do so in the United States. & The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) partnered with Electreon Wireless to complete the task as part of a five-year commitment to develop the electric road system (ERS) and expand it around the state.

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