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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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That was the first time he had met a person with a limb difference. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 2007 from Loyola University in Chicago. He reported that he felt as though a part of him had come back thanks to the prosthesis. Pierre , 2018–2019 U.S. MAKING PROSTHETIC LIMBS ACCESSIBLE. www.youtube.com.

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The Relay That Changed the Power Industry

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Schweitzer III invented the digital microprocessor-based relay as part of his doctoral thesis. In 2019 he was inducted into the U.S. The fault shunts extra current to some parts of the circuit, shorting it out. in Chicago. It is now part of SEL. Then, in 1977, Edmund O. National Inventors Hall of Fame.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]). In the U.S. It is now owned by Stellantis.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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He left Tokyo in 2013 to become president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and served in that position until 2019. Among the awards he received was a 2016 Bunka Korosha (Person of Cultural Merit) Award , one of the highest honors bestowed by the Japanese government. He earned a Ph.D.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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During a House Financial Services Committee hearing in October 2019, Representative Maxine Waters D-Calif.) who said to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg: “I think you of all people can appreciate using a person’s past behavior in decisions about future behavior. Netflix is AWS’s largest customer. These companies had two main concerns.

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The EV Transition Explained: Reshaping Labor Markets

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Michigan Governor’s Gretchen Whitmer, for example, claimed that since she took office in 2019, 25,000 new auto jobs were added to the state through her leadership in leading “the future of mobility and electrification.” Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty Images. million jobs” in the Japanese auto industry.

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Subspace Rebuilt the Internet for Real-Time Applications

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Put together, Subspace has created a "weather map" for the Internet that can spot choppy or stormy parts of the network and work around them for better, faster real-time data movement. In December 2019 the videoconferencing company Zoom had 10 million daily participants, and by April of the following year it had 300 million.

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