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Building Better Qubits

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While growing up in Germany, Heike Riel helped her father design and build furniture in the family workshop. She says the experience taught her that “precision and creativity are necessary to build something excellent.” When I go back to my hometown, many of our clients still have the furniture that I helped build for them.”

Building 142
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Industrial Light & Magic Engineer Wins a Technical Oscar

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Vanns, who now works at Disney -owned Industrial Light & Magic , in London, was an avid cinephile growing up. Eager to break into the industry, he began applying for jobs, and in 2006 he was hired as a systems programmer at Framestore. “It Their software is still being used today.

Light 90
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Build a Passive Radar With Software-Defined Radio

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IEEE Spectrum since 2006, when SDR become something remotely within a maker’s budget. Building off the demand stimulated by this activity, a number of manufacturers have started making premium, but still relatively cheap, SDRs. I ordered two small and light $19 TV antennas. I’ve checked in with amateur SDR developments for.

Building 100
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Building the Future of Smart Home Security

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From video doorbells to robot vacuums, automated lighting, and voice assistants, smart home technology has invaded consumers’ homes and shows no sign of disappearing anytime soon. This is a sponsored article brought to you by SimpliSafe. At SimpliSafe , an award-winning home security company based in Boston, Mass.,

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Los Alamos and Oberon Fuels receive DOE funding to produce renewable hydrogen from renewable DME (rDME)

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This project builds on a previous bench-top demonstration of a DME steam reforming process conducted by researchers at the Laboratory, which produced 0.018 kg of hydrogen per day. We cannot wait to build on this strong foundation to show that rDME can be a pathway to help decarbonize the transportation sector. Semelsberger, Kevin C.

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Junkyard Find: 2008 Mercury Sable, Press Loaner Flashback Edition

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The 2008 Sable was available in just six exterior colors: Light Ice Blue, Dark Ink Blue, Black, Oxford White, Silver Birch and Merlot; it appears that nearly all of them were Dark Ink Blue or Black. Look, I found a Merlot 2006 Montego just one row over from today's Junkyard Find ! The Freestyle became the Taurus X.

Mercury 59
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NanoXplore acquires assets of XG Sciences; silicon-graphene anode materials

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Founded in 2006, XG Sciences specialized in the production of graphene nanoplatelets and the formulations of advanced materials that amplify product performance across diverse applications such as Lithium-ion battery anode materials, automotive, packaging, composites, concrete, and other industrial markets.