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Ford expanding global electrified vehicle battery R&D

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Since then, through the end of November 2015, the company has sold a total of 447,200 units of an expanded hybrid line-up that includes two plug-in hybrids: the C-MAX Energi (on-sale October 2012) and the Fusion Energi (on-sale February 2013). Taiwan and Korea, where the company offers the Mondeo Hybrid.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?

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In a 2015 study for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment, Bryan Clark , a naval specialist now at the Hudson Institute, noted that the ability of these boats to remain submerged for long periods of time made them “ nearly impossible to find with radar and active sonar.” It may come. Pacific submarines.

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Study finds unprecedented urbanization and urban expansion in East-Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2010

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The study shows that at the same time, urban areas expanded by 34,000 km 2 —an area the size of Taiwan. —Professor Annemarie Schneider from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lead author. The population maps were developed by the WorldPop team, led by Andy Tatem at the University of Southampton.

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