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Google and IEEE launch $1M challenge for downsized inverters

Green Car Congress

Eligible academics interested in pursuing grant funding must apply by 30 September. They are required to bring their inverters in person to a testing facility in United States by 21 October 2015. They are required to bring their inverters in person to a testing facility in United States by 21 October 2015.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear.

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Dipping Into the World’s Most Stunning Hot Springs

Baua Electric

Several years ago, with the dream of making a book, I set out to learn and document how people around the world make use of thermal waters. At 23 locations across 12 countries, I talked with workers, stewards and experts, who taught me about the local history and personality of each place. That’s part of the ritual, too.

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A Bold New Plan for Preserving Online Privacy and Security

Cars That Think

Cloud providers are single points of failure and prime targets for hackers to scoop up everything from proprietary corporate communications to our personal photo albums and financial documents. It could use your personal data to train its AI models. Solid is a protocol for distributed personal data stores, called pods.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

Cars That Think

Networks that link personal computers in offices. In the mid-1970s, close to half of the top 100 computer scientists in the world were working at PARC, and the laboratory boasted similar strength in other fields, including solid-state physics and optics. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.”

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How an Electrical Engineer Solved Australia’s Most Famous Cold Case

Cars That Think

Several chemical assays failed to identify any poison; granted, the methods of the day were not up to the task. These speculations aside, the idea that a person could simply die in plain view and without friends or family was shocking. The presence of blood in the stomach, a common consequence of poisoning, was noted at the autopsy.

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A Stand for Solar: How a united movement helped pause CA’s solar tax proposal — at least for now

Teslarati

Even Hollywood and sports personalities used their voices to call for California’s solar industry not to be hobbled by NEM 3.0. is so controversial that solar advocates outside the United States perceived the CPUC’s proposal with a certain level of disbelief. as early as March 17.

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