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JANUARY 14, 2024
There he led network management research and helped design Italy’s first electronic exchange and data network. In 2003 he was promoted to director of long-term research at the lab, focusing on technology’s evolution and its potential impact. Roberto had a unique talent for recognizing and valuing the best in each person.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 11, 2014
Volkswagen AG has set the goal of becoming the world’s most sustainable carmaker by the year 2018. VW’s “Strategy 2018”, earlier post.) Volkswagen launched the first production dual clutch transmission in 2003 as the Volkswagen 6-speed DSG, which was initially used in the Golf R32 and the Audi TT. Mild hybrid: stop-start 2.0
Cars That Think
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Often a person must walk across a room to retrieve the remote control unit, and frequently it may be misplaced, which, at best, requires extra time and effort to find.” The Clapper also had an “away” setting that was activated by noise, designed to deter burglars while homeowners were on vacation. Obviously, we needed an intervention.
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AUGUST 16, 2021
Piloting the bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane in 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first person to exceed the speed of sound while in horizontal flight. They're preparing prototypes for flight and they've got designs for full-blown airliners capable of carrying scores of passengers. Everett Collection/Alamy. supersonic airliner.
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AUGUST 21, 2022
By the war’s end, with “not quite one arm between four persons, and exactly two legs between six,” these self-taught amputee-weaponsmiths decide to repurpose their skills toward a new projectile: a rocket ship. And yet who better to design the next great leap in technology than men remade by technology themselves?
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