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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. Lyft also has rolled out multiple-rider sharing that creates an on-demand carpool.

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3 Challenges to Solve Before We Can Commute by Air Taxi

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As part of a program to develop the needed flight rules and communications systems, we are leading a consortium of a dozen companies and universities, called the North Texas Cohort , that is operating an experimental air corridor north of Dallas, Texas. However, there are major challenges that go well beyond the eVTOLs themselves.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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This article was first published as "The battle for the SX-70." of Dallas, Texas. He is now a design manager at Dallas Semiconductor Corp. in Dallas, Texas.) Designing in Dallas A preliminary round had disappointed both IC teams. At the final count, some 400 transistors were used. of Palo Alto, Calif., 25, 1975.

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AMD’s Lisa Su Breaks Through the Silicon Ceiling

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As a doctoral candidate, Su was one of the first researchers to look into silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology, according to an MIT Technology Review article about her. Her first job was with Texas Instruments , in Dallas, where she was a member of the technical staff at the company's semiconductor process and device center.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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This sponsored article is brought to you by Technology Innovation Institute. The security posture of the first connected cars is better, but there are still glaring vulnerabilities and gaps that need to be addressed. Autonomous systems sit at the intersection of AI, IoT, cloud architectures, and agile software development practices.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.” The author spoke with many members of the design team in the months following the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh, however, Steve Jobs did not grant an interview for this article. It appeared in the December 1984 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Sven Thesen, the communication and technology director for Better Place , a start-up that is gaining traction (see this recent New York Times article ) in its effort to create a network for electric cars in various countries, likened the concept of electric cars to cellphones. — Mark - Dallas 21. — Mark - Dallas 25.

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