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New Mexico adopts Clean Cars Rule

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The New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) and the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board (AQCB) have each adopted the Clean Car Rule after a joint public hearing. Their independent approval of the Clean Car Rule allows California’s Advanced Clean Cars to be implemented statewide in New Mexico beginning 1 July 2022.

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Daimler Trucks’ Autonomous Technology Group adding testing center in New Mexico

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September 2020 marks one year of Daimler Trucks and Torc Robotics partnering as a team after the US based automated driving technology company became part of Daimler Trucks’ Autonomous Technology Group. Now, the Autonomous Technology Group will extend its testing to New Mexico by building up a new testing center in Albuquerque.

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Daimler Trucks and Torc partner with Luminar to enable automated trucking; Daimler Trucks acquires minority stake in Luminar

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Experts at Daimler Trucks, its US subsidiary, Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) and Torc Robotics, part of Daimler Trucks’ Autonomous Technology Group, with the experts at Luminar are collaboratively pursuing a common goal of bringing series-produced highly automated trucks (SAE Level 4) to roads globally.

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao

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in 1966 in EE from the University of New Mexico , in Albuquerque. DCT technology reduces the amount of data required to display, store, and transmit images by identifying parts of the image that contain significant amounts of energy—the ones that are most important to retaining image quality. He received a Ph.D.

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New recycling solution introduced to treat Marcellus Shale flowback frac water

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Albuquerque, NM, is seeking to provide a solution to the environmental issues surrounding the treatment of mineral?laden A new joint partnership between Casella Waste Systems, Inc. Rutland, VT, and Altela, Inc., a privately held water desalination company in. laden brackish water from Marcellus Shale drilling.

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Turing Award Winner On His Pioneering Algorithms

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He received US $1 million as part of the award, which is known as the Nobel Prize of computing. Their programming languages, theorems, techniques, and standards have helped me develop my algorithms. he left the lab to study applied mathematics at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

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HEI ACES study of lifetime animal exposure to New Technology Diesel Engine exhaust finds no lung cancer

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The study exposed laboratory rats 80 hours a week, for up to 30 months, to emissions from a heavy-duty diesel engine meeting 2007 US EPA standards using new filters and other control technology. The ACES results are expected to play an important role in future risk reviews of diesel engines by international and US agencies.

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