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Elon Musk is TIME Magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year

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Elon Musk has been dubbed by TIME Magazine as its 2021 Person of the Year. The award, which the magazine gives to an individual or group who most shaped the previous 12 months, for better or worse, has been ongoing for nearly a century. elonmusk is TIME’s 2021 Person of the Year.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk earns another Person of the Year Award

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Just days after being dubbed as TIME Magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year , Tesla and SpaceX CEO received yet another Person of the Year Award, this time from the Financial Times. Elon Musk is TIME Magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year. FT is naming ? Musk has numerous critics. It’s incredible. (It’s

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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

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Because for those with disabilities, assistive technologies mean more than convenience. So, what is an assistive technology (AT), and who designs it? They're all assistive technologies. CSUN Master of Science in Assistive Technology Engineering. Master of Science in Assistive Technology Engineering at.

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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. As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out.

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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

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The magazine was successful in its aim, but it also demonstrated that it takes a very determined driver and an elaborate set of procedures to bypass Tesla’s driver-monitoring systems. . The magazine’s team seemed to have buckled in the driver’s seatbelt without a person sitting in the seat.

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Celebrating the Life of Columbia Professor Stephen Unger

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Stephen Unger, founder and past president of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology , died on 4 July at the age of 92. Unger was professor emeritus of computer science and electrical engineering at Columbia , where he taught courses on technology and its impact on society. Unger served as its vice chairman in 1980.

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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

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Gerard “Gus” Gaynor says he knew he would become an engineer when he was 7 years old, inspired by his father’s monthly Popular Mechanics magazines. I worked with Gus Gaynor in multiple capacities for over 30 years,” says IEEE Life Senior Member Celia Desmond , a former president of the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society. “He

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