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The Transistor at 75

Cars That Think

In honor of this most important of technological achievements, this issue’s package of articles explores the transistor’s historical journey and potential future. The transistor would never have become so useful and so ubiquitous if the semiconductor industry had not succeeded in making it small and cheap.

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Shell Recharge massively expands with Volta acquisition

Teslarati

The company is also one of many that have attempted to make charging as cheap as possible by selling “billboard space” on each of its chargers. What do you think of the article? In total, Volta operates 990 locations in North America, covering 399 cities. Do you have any comments, questions, or concerns?

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Tips for Choosing a Car Rental in Dubai

Clean Fleet Report

Exploring the Wheel Possibilities in the Middle East This article may contain affiliate links. Moreover, don’t chase excessively cheap prices. As you may know, Dubai is a metropolis where people come from all over the world—some as tourists, others to earn money, and others simply choose this city for a temporary stay.

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Huawei’s smart car tech offers automakers route to China sales – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Huawei Technologies has two huge booths at this week’s event, and there are at least seven Chinese automakers touting its Qiankun installed in their cars as the most sophisticated advanced driving assistance system (ADAS) to date.

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Exclusive: FAA Investigates If It's Safer to Leave Cellphones On

Cars That Think

A Spectrum investigation earlier this year discovered that GPS interference events are far more prevalent, particularly in the western United States, than had previously been thought. An advantage of using wireless networks to provide that warning is that cellphones are very cheap and now almost ubiquitous.

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Voltage surge and transient suppression in EV chargers

Charged EVs

Clamping devices automatically reset after a surge event, then, but have to withstand extremely high peak wattages (from the product of their high breakdown voltage and the surge current). This article originally appeared in Issue 66: October-December 2023 – Subscribe now.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. You wrote a famous article in 2017, “ The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Prediction. “ And it’s really cheap.

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