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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. National Industries for the Blind , an employment placement service in Baltimore for the visually impaired. They tried many iterations before they had a working prototype.

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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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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Rao authored more than 14 books and 400 journal articles during his career. Park decided to switch careers and at night took graduate courses at Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. After nine years at Penn State he moved to New York, where he was a research professor at the University of Buffalo until shortly before he died.

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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. Her insights greatly helped with this article. In the U.S. as well as 600 universities throughout the country. One million 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. It’s the lowest level in decades. Black, Native American, and low-income students had particularly low math scores on the federal standardized test.

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

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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. In the North Carolina example above the cost was $100,000 for a single 50 kW charger and in the Baltimore example, $137,500 for deploying two 50 kW chargers.

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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.