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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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His original hypothesis, published in a 1965 Electronics magazine article , was that the number of transistors would double each year. also in chemistry, in 1954 from Caltech , he began his career as a researcher in the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. After earning his Ph.D.,

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High School Students Built This iPhone App for the Visually Impaired

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Blind Industries and Services of Maryland , a not-for-profit organization in Baltimore that provides training and career resources to the state’s visually impaired. The app currently is available only on iOS because iPhones are the most popular among those testing the device and the software has more accessibility features, Ravella says.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. But take a look at the variety of program available. She outlines the variety of choices available in a white paper. In the U.S.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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In the United States, eighth graders scored an average of 271 out of 500 in math on last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress , as highlighted in a New York Times article. For students who want to practice their math skills at home, a monthly subscription of $24 to Prisms Math is available from the Meta Quest store.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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Their goal was to provide a mechanism for sharing and obtaining results from the latest research—especially knowledge that was not available in the published literature. As one press account put it, “On the show floor, there are plenty of demonstrations but few available products.” All the U.S. in December of the same year.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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In Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon , members of the fictitious Baltimore Gun Club, all disabled Civil War veterans, restlessly search for a new enemy to conquer. They had spent the war innovating new, deadlier weaponry. And in the United States at least, there is a broken insurance system that needs fixing.

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How Many EV Charging Stations Will $10 Billion Buy for America?

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Especially with DC fast chargers, a host site likely will not have enough power available and the local utility will have to bring more power to the site. In a recent Wall Street Journal article , Cathy Zoi, CEO of the charging network EVgo, was quoted that it cost the company an estimated $110,000 to deploy a DC fast charger.

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