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Toyota & Daimler Merging Hino & Mitsubishi Fuso Truck Brands

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will be collaborating on commercial vehicle development, procurement, and production. From Automotive News : "Behind this collaboration is our four companies' strong desire to create the future of commercial vehicles together," Toyota CEO Koji Sato said at a Tokyo news conference.

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ICCT paper suggests new supersonic aircraft unlikely to comply with existing environmental standards for subsonic aircraft

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A noise assessment concludesd that emerging SSTs are likely to fail current (2018) and perhaps even historical (2006) landing and takeoff noise standards. These findings suggest two pathways for further development of commercial SSTs. One-way mission fuel consumption per passenger by route and class. Source: The ICCT.

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Lockheed Martin’s CTO Steven Walker on Future Defense Technologies

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One project he approved in 2003 was the US $500 million joint program between DARPA and the Air Force to develop the Falcon. One is the AI Next campaign, which has a multiyear investment of more than $2 billion that began in 2018. His office was not damaged, but the attack jump-started his long career at DARPA, which he joined in 2002.

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The New Supersonic Boom

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Although military aircraft were breaking the sound barrier daily during the 1950s and '60s, commercial passenger flights during this time remained limited to subsonic speeds. Now, several aircraft manufacturers and NASA are intent on ushering in a new era of supersonic commercial aviation. now appears to be going out of business.

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How the Inventor of DSL Altered the Course of Connectivity

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Cioffi is known as the “father of DSL” not only because of his creation of the first such modem but also his work to commercialize and popularize the technology. Cioffi says he was energized by teaching advanced EE students and being free of the constant no’s he’d received in the corporate world.

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