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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

Cars That Think

Alamouti, cofounder and executive board chairman of Mimik , in Oakland, Calif., Alamouti began his engineering career as a part-time contract worker designing and building mobile-data protocols for taxi dispatch systems at Mobile Data International , in Vancouver. Title: Cofounder and executive board chairman. in Burnaby.

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On the World’s Largest Cruise Ship, Thrills and Space to Chill

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It’s stunning,” said Christina Carvalho, a 43-year-old accountant from Oakland, Calif., Over the years our customers told us that despite being on the ocean, they did not feel connected to it, so with Icon we wanted to bring water everywhere,” said Jennifer Goswami, the director of product development at Royal Caribbean International.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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Thats because electric engines are more efficient than internal-combustion engines, and because generating energy on a large scale (in coal or nuclear plants) is less wasteful than doing it on a small scale (by burning gasoline in an internal-combustion engine). Two all-electric cars - the E3 and the E6 - will follow later this year.

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