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Rivian R1T pulls out 38,000 pound semi and trailer stuck in snowy ditch

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The R1T’s incredible quad motor setup, producing 835 horsepower and 908 pound-feet of torque, makes it an incredibly powerful truck and one of the fastest electric vehicles you can buy, period. The video posted by RivianUpdates on Twitter shows the enthusiastic owner helping a stuck truck driver just south of Moab, Utah.

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GM leaps ahead in lithium mining race, secures next-gen extraction deal

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This has pushed many, including GM, further down its supply chain, buying up companies and securing supplies for the future. These facilities will be built in Argentina, Chile, California, Arkansas, and Utah, respectively. What do you think of the article? Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns?

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Trevor Milton looked like the next Elon Musk—and may end in the nick.

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The article concludes with: In July 2021, about six months after the botched fact-finding mission, Milton was indicted on two counts of securities fraud and one count of wire fraud. Prosecutors say he also defrauded a man who sold him a ranch in Utah by persuading him to accept Nikola stock options as payment.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol. from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

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Xerox buys into computing This wasn’t Xerox’s only big bet on computing. Into PARC flowed many former ARPA contractors, including some from Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory , the University of Utah ‘s computer graphics operation, Doug Engelbart’s group at SRI , and BBN’s artificial-intelligence efforts.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” One of the first decisions Pake in turn made was to hire, among others, Robert Taylor, then at the University of Utah , to help him recruit engineers and scientists for the Computer Science and Systems Science Laboratories.

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