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The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law

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ASML I was updating my grandfather about the work I was doing in my lab at ASML , a Netherlands-based company that develops and builds equipment for manufacturing semiconductor chips. The first zap flattens the drop into a disk; the second vaporizes it into a ball of hot, ultraviolet-emitting plasma.

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This Man Made the Modem in Your Phone a Reality

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Over the next several years, he and his team created a wide variety of proof-of-concept chips demonstrating the key building blocks of high-performance digital modems. It took a full semester to build it, and, at the end, I brought it into class, plugged it in, and sound came out of it. Since 2018, hes served as chairman.

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"The Doctor Will See Your Electronic Health Record Now"

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Electronic health records, he declared, would transform health care by ensuring that a persons complete medical information was available at the time and place of care, no matter where it originates. They are not likely wrong, as nearly 70 percent of doctors in 2018 felt that EHRs took valuable time away from their patients.

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Taxing the Distance

Energy Institute at HAAS

and illuminating look at how a simple policy shift could rattle everything from personal budgets to the red-blue map. The study doesn’t try to declare a tax policy utopia; it skips the moralizing and dives into the mechanics of who wins and who loses if we make this swap. In the end, it’s a wonky (this is a compliment!)

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Housing Development Threatens Another Historic Race Track

The Truth About Cars

Founded in 1965, Raceway Park stopped hosting all drag racing events in 2018 due to rising costs. Automakers were already moving away from cars with an abundance of personality. The only real concern is that “only about 50 [percent] of the property is developable as the site has significant environmental constraints.”

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Why Pilots Will Matter in the Age of Autonomous Planes

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So would it really be useful for a person to go to college now and be an airline pilot if a few years down the road they will be phased out by technology?” Rather, they’re building on decades of certification experience and best practices that have helped to dramatically improve the safety of the aviation industry over its history.

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2018 VW Tiguan and new 2.0 TSI B-cycle engine gives VW a strong offering in compact SUV segment

Green Car Congress

Volkswagen of America is in the process of rolling out its all-new long wheelbase 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan ( earlier post ). As with the all-new 2018 Volkswagen Atlas full-size SUV ( earlier post ), the new Tiguan is based on Volkswagen’s Modular Transverse Matrix (MQB) architecture. Significance of the 2018 Tiguan. Height (in).

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