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Volkswagen and Faurecia delivering PPE to New York City Javits Center and area hospitals

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Volkswagen of America and Faurecia are collaborating to manufacture Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) items needed on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis response. Volkswagen has donated the first run of Faurecia-produced masks and gowns to New York State’s COVID-19 response efforts.

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Wyoming leads in vehicle miles traveled per person

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Because total VMT depends, in part, on the size of the population, of interest in this study was the variation among the states in vehicle miles traveled per person (VMT per person). The results show that VMT per person in 2018 ranged from 18,072 miles in Wyoming to 5,261 miles in the District of Columbia. Census Bureau.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. engineers were forming hobby clubs to learn about the new machines.

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NYU review study suggests potential for gauging health risks of air pollution on individual level

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The level of practical use of these personal monitoring methods has not yet been developed to the point of directly impacting policy (e.g., There are challenges in enabling policies that limit personal exposures, but the likely improvements in health and welfare are potentially massive. —Caplin et al. billion a year.

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GM Maven expanding car-sharing operations in NYC

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GM’s Maven is expanding operations in New York City with more than 80 Maven City car-sharing vehicles available throughout Manhattan for hourly or daily reservations. More than 80 vehicles are now available in Manhattan, from Columbia University to Battery Park, for hourly or daily reservations.

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AI Tool for COVID Monitoring Offers Solution for Urban Congestion

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In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020, many research groups sought an effective method to determine mobility patterns and crowd densities on the streets of major cities like New York City to give insight into the effectiveness of stay-at-home and social distancing strategies.

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Evaluating Mobile Health Tools Is Comparing Apples to Oranges

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Like a doctor on one’s wrist, mobile health (mHealth) tools offer the promise of providing personal physiological data on demand. What might be motivating for one person, such as a personalized encouraging message, may seem intrusive to another. How many steps did you take today? Press the button. Push the button. Glucose level?