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Ford expanding global electrified vehicle battery R&D

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Ford is expanding its electrified vehicles research and development program in Europe and Asia this year, creating a “hub-and-spoke” system that allows the global team to further accelerate battery technology and take advantage of market-specific opportunities. Taiwan and Korea, where the company offers the Mondeo Hybrid.

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Global WorldAutoSteel Project Presents Interim Results of FutureSteelVehicle (FSV) Phase 2 Project for Low GHG Body Structure for Electrified Vehicles

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WorldAutoSteel,the automotive group of the World Steel Association, has presented findings on the progress of FutureSteelVehicle (FSV) Phase 2, a global steel industry effort to develop advanced high-strength steel (AHSS) architectures for electrified vehicles that reduce life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Arcelor Mittal - Luxembourg.

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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. What if that changes? “We

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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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