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“Better off sharing”: Opel launches CarUnity brand-agnostic carsharing concept

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The CarUnity app can be downloaded for free from the Apple App Store and Google Play. CarUnity enables individual mobility everywhere in Germany—at any time and with greatest flexibility. People in Germany can offer their car for rental or rent a car with the free app. We are taking a new approach with CarUnity.

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Ford to begin autonomous vehicle testing on California roads; Silicon Valley Lab accelerates Smart Mobility Plan

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The current (as of 3 December 2015) approved participants in the California program in addition to Ford are: Volkswagen Group of America; Mercedes Benz; Google; Delphi Automotive; Tesla Motors; Bosch; Nissan; Cruise Automation; BMW; and Honda. Autonomous Ford Fusion outside the Ford Research and Innovation Center in Palo Alto.

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Engineers

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MYERS Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics and Center for Systems Biology Dresden, Germany WEBB MILLER The Pennsylvania State University , retired State College, Pa. DEBORAH ESTRIN Cornell “For leadership in mobile and wireless sensing systems technologies and applications, including personal health management.”

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. At first, the innovation didn’t spread outside of Germany because of World War II. inch floppy at Shugart Associates, developed in the 1980s.

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New engines in Porsche 911 Carrera boost power and torque; almost 12% more efficient

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Google Earth and Google Streetview are also being integrated for the first time to offer better orientation. The new Porsche 911 Carrera models will be launched in Germany on 12 December 2015. Real-time traffic information is available for significantly improved navigation.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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During World War II, as personal science and engineering adviser to President Roosevelt, he led all research by civilians for the military and organized the Manhattan Project. Peace Through Strength The decision to work on weapons technology, or not, was highly personal to Bush and a decision not easy to unpack.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear. MB of data. Clones, in a sense, are marvelous….it

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