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The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper

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This 1980s earworm of a jingle touted a gadget to turn your lights, your TV, or any other electrical device on or off with the clap of your hands. In 1985, Peter Liljequist and Kou Chen filed a Canadian patent for an acoustic switch for turning lights and other appliances on and off. The Clapper!” 5,493,618 ) is a chatty marvel.

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Remembering Roberto Saracco, President of EIT Digital

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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.

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Global auto production may hit 80+ million units this year; hybrids below 2% of total output

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Worldwide light-duty vehicle production. Production of light-duty passenger vehicles (cars and light trucks) rose from 74.4 When both light- and heavy-duty trucks are included, the number rises to 979 million vehicles—30 million more than just a year earlier. Source: Worldwatch. Click to enlarge. l/100 km (52.3

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Volkswagen outlines a range of near-term technologies for reducing fuel consumption and emissions; stop-start 2.0, 10-speed DSG

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To achieve this, the Volkswagen brand—the highest volume brand of the Group—is counting on electric mobility (zero-emission and plug-in hybrid models); on continually more fuel-efficient combustion engines and gearboxes; progressive lightweight design; aerodynamics; and efficiency “ in every conceivable area ”. The start-stop 2.0

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NYU Tandon Exploring “Megabase-Scale” Genetic Engineering

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Within these base pairs are every subtlety of what makes you uniquely you — the way your eyes change color in different lighting, the sound of your laugh, your freckles. We had gotten pretty good at building designer segments of one hundred thousand base pairs, or even 1 million base pairs. It also encodes dangers.

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Former Royal Navy Officer Advocates for LGBTQ+ engineers

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He was hired in 2003 as a project engineer and was trained on the basic principles of how railways work and also the unique form of relay logic used to design railway signaling systems. s railways. They basically took my engineering expertise and gave me a new language and a new domain to apply it to,” he says.

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The New Supersonic Boom

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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.