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Toyota to build prototype city of the future, powered by hydrogen fuel cells

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At CES, Toyota revealed plans to build a prototype “city” of the future on a 175-acre (0.71 Building a complete city from the ground up, even on a small scale like this, is a unique opportunity to develop future technologies, including a digital operating system for the city’s infrastructure. km 2 ) site at the base of Mt.

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Avantium Building YXY Pilot Plant for Furanics Biofuels and Materials

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Avantium uses a catalytic process to convert carbohydrates into furanics building blocks. The plant will produce several tons of YXY building blocks per year to support product development. Over the past years we have made tremendous progress to develop a low-cost production process to convert biomass into YXY building blocks.

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Warehouse Robots to Automate Your Living Room

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Well, it’s probably not going to massively boost your productivity or increase your own personal fulfillment all that much, but it’s an interesting idea that might make some things a little more convenient from time to time. Buying the robot plus one two-tier shelf will cost you about $2000 in total, plus an $8 per month subscription fee.

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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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SNDi for streets added years 2000 to 2014. In contrast to the corrective trend observed in the United States, where streets have become more connected since the late 20 th century, we find that most of the world is building ever-more disconnected “street-network sprawl.” Barrington-Leigh and Millard-Ball.

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Junkyard Find: 1986 Dodge Aries SE Four-Door Sedan

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My personal K-Car experience hasn't been as positive. I recall angrily futzing with video codecs in order to watch the file I'd laboriously downloaded of this spoof Aries commercial, circa 2000. We can assume it would still be on the road today, had it not been hit in the right rear. 1986 Dodge Aries in California wrecking yard.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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Intel microprocessors now power personal computers made by major manufacturers including Dell , HP , and IBM. He became not only a visionary but also our coach, pushing us to build the impossible. Along with his wife of 72 years, in 2000 Moore established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation , which has donated more than US $5.1

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Faster, Meaner, Deadlier: The Evolution of BattleBots

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Battlebots premiered on Comedy Central in, I think it was, 2000. They've got more technology built into them so the team can have a person monitoring things like heat, and they'll know when to, for instance, shut a weapon down. What are the biggest changes you've seen technology-wise over 20 years or so? Now we're 22 years later.

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