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

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An international team of researchers has used satellite images to map urban growth between 1985 and 2015. 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. —Liu et al.

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Hyundai launches Sonata PHEV; 22-mile electric range

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Hyundai lanched the 2016 Hyundai Sonata Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle—Hyundai’s first plug-in hybrid vehicle—along with the hybrid version of the seventh-generation Sonata, at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Sonata PHEV is expected to deliver 93 MPGe combined in EV mode based on internal estimates.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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IBM has its own claim to the invention of an aspect of the device, based on a year-2000 confidential internal report written by one of its employees, Shimon Shmueli. Tan also pursued, with little success, claims at the United States International Trade Commission against other companies, including Imation, IronKey, Patriot, and Verbatim.

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First Drive: 2016 Hyundai Sonata PHEV and HEV

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Sonata Plug-in Hybrid will be built at the Asan, South Korea plant and will go on sale in select markets later this Fall. Sonata PHEV is expected to deliver 93 MPGe combined in EV mode based on internal estimates. l/100 km) combined based on internal testing. km) of all electric range and a 9.8 Earlier post.).

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Video Friday: Spot Tripping

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IEEE RO-MAN 2023 : 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA IROS 2023 : 1–5 October 2023, DETROIT CLAWAR 2023 : 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL Humanoids 2023 : 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS Enjoy today’s videos! We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. UCSD ] Thanks, Daniel!

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The Chip Shortage, Giant Chips, and the Future of Moore’s Law

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trillion transistors, consumes 20 kilowatts, and carries enough internal bandwidth to stream a billion Netflix movies? SambaNova is after the same title, and clearly Google has it's eye on some awfully big neural networks , too. Of course, Taiwan and South Korea are also making major domestic investments, as are Europe and Japan.

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Satellite Imagery for Everyone

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Satellite imagery has also helped identify illegal fishing activities , fight human trafficking, monitor oil spills , get accurate reporting on COVID-19 deaths, and even investigate Uyghur internment camps in China —all situations where the primary actors couldn’t be trusted to accurately report what’s going on.