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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part IV)

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As we learned in our last installment , the comprehensive (if clunky) navigation system used a touchscreen, had live traffic information, and could even make phone calls. One could assume the touchscreen was rated more poorly since it was the most cutting edge part of the navigation process. Some things just take time.

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EIA: China’s use of methanol in liquid fuels has grown rapidly since 2000; >500K bpd in 2016

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Now, a study commissioned by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) from eia.gov (a global provider of analysis on energy and commodities), finds that since the early 2000s, China’s consumption of methanol in fuel products has risen sharply. Annual methanol consumption in China, 2000-16. Click to enlarge. Background.

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Automobile Information manage providers, ranked through general OEM automobile portions gross sales

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Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 726-2462 Swamy Kotagiri (CEO) $18,920 ( f ) $16,671 ( f ) $37,840 ( f ) $36,242 ( f ) Frame buildings, exteriors, powertrain, electronics, mechatronics, mirrors, lighting fixtures, seating, whole automobile production Northville, MI, USA (734) 855-2600 Martin Fischer (president & member board of control) $12,000 $10,454 (..)

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Petrobras directing supercomputer capacity to Folding@home Project effort on coronavirus

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Launched in 2000, the Folding@home project is a distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics, including the process of protein folding and the movements of proteins implicated in a variety of diseases. Folding@home’s specialty is in using computer simulations to understand proteins’ moving parts.

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IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Vint Cerf

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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Processing Techniques Office in 1974, Cerf and IEEE Life Fellow Robert Kahn designed the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol. now part of WorldCom ), headquartered in Washington, D.C., as vice president of its digital information services division.

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US PIRG report finds reduced driving and rates of car commuting in most populous US urbanized areas

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States with shading are missing reliable data for all or part of an urbanized area, and ‘X’s denote the location of excluded urbanized areas. The proportion of residents working from home has increased in 100 out of the 100 largest urbanized areas since 2000. VMT per capita has declined across the US (2006 to 2011). Source: US PIRG.

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US exports of petroleum products up more than 60% since 2007 as markets become more globally integrated

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Total US exports of finished petroleum products have increased more than 60% since 2007 as markets have become more globally integrated, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). From 2000 through 2009, motor gasoline exports were generally 1%–2% of motor gasoline product supplied (a proxy for demand).

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