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Bosch developing sensor box for air taxis using production-tested components from automotive

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In vehicles, they supply control units with data about whether the car is currently braking or accelerating, and lets them know the direction in which the vehicle is traveling. Through our Bosch solution, we aim to make civil aviation with flying taxis affordable for a wide range of providers.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Double-Stator Switched Reluctance Motor (DSSRM) Technology General Atomics and the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) will develop a new type of electric motor with the. unique “double stator” motor design, which has initially been investigated at UT-Dallas, which can smoothly and efficiently. motor’s rotating components.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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This complex operation requires more memory and hardware than the Macintosh designers could afford. In the end, Apple got a commitment from Zilog to supply the part, which Mr. Espinosa attributes to the negotiating talents of Mr. Jobs. Also, Apple hadn’t yet sold a million Apple IIs. The logic board was horizontally positioned.

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