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Neste-led project verified 50% methane emission reduction at palm oil mills using belt filter press

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The project took place in palm oil mills in Indonesia and Malaysia, and was conducted in collaboration with a palm oil company KLK, a Dutch sustainable trade organization IDH, and an international certification system ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification). The potential that the method offers is enormous, Neste said.

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AI Is Helping to Stop Animal Poaching and Food Insecurity

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The first PAWS trial was conducted in Malaysia in 2014. More trials were conducted in Uganda in 2016 in collaboration with the Queen Elizabeth National Park ’s Wildlife Conservation Society and in China in 2017 and 2019 with the World Wildlife Foundation. Fang left Harvard in 2017 to join Carnegie Mellon as an assistant professor.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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That device, now known by a variety of names—including memory stick, USB stick, flash drive, as well as thumb drive—changed the way computer files are stored and transferred. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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The State of the Transistor in 3 Charts

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That’s more transistors than were cumulatively made in all the years prior to 2017. And researchers in Japan and Malaysia produced transparent diamond devices capable of handling more than 1,000 volts. Mnemonic: NAND flash memory cells can store multiple bits in a single device. Researchers at Kioxia Corp.