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“Charging Station” — Is That the Location or the “Charger”?

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Below is a simple and typical example of the confusing and inconsistent use of the term “charging station” from a news article shared on Twitter. When an article says there are something like 115,000 charging stations in America less than the estimated ~145,000 fueling stations , it’s important to get this right. We have a choice.

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao

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This tribute is an excerpted version of an article dedicated to his memory written by three of his colleagues: IEEE Member Jae Jeong Hwang, Zoran M. They presented their results in the article “ Discrete Cosine Transform ,” published in the January 1974 IEEE Transactions on Computers. Milicevic, and IEEE Life Senior Member Zoran S.

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Moore’s Not Enough: ?4 New Laws of Computing

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The company standardized all the tasks and assigned each worker to do just one task—standardizing the work each worker does as well. The Model T is probably the paradigmatic example of how standardization enables designing processes for scalability. Ford further built machines which could stamp out parts automatically.

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Feature: What You Need to Know About the 2021 Ford Explorer

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This article may contain affiliate links. It has three different engine packages to choose from–the Standard, Hybrid and the ST. Both the Standard and the ST have Ford’s patented EcoBoost engines, giving them more horsepower and torque while retaining fuel efficiency. It’s a definite eye-catching ride.

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How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper

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In a world that hadn’t seen a monochrome display in a very long time—TVs made the switch in the 1960s, computer monitors in the late ’80s—a monochrome display was definitely quaintly old school. They came up with some early products that targeted shelf labels for brick-and-mortar retail stores and also for signage.

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IEEE Strengthens its Support for Open Science

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IEEE Life Fellow Sergio Benedetto , vice president, IEEE Publication Services and Products, told The Institute, “We have taken several steps to increase the availability of open access journals in our portfolio, and we definitely also want to enlarge our activities in the open science domain.”

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The Day the U.S. TV Industry Died

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This article was first published as “The longest survivor loses its grip.” Zenith’s scheme for stereo TV, Multi-channel Television Sound, is accepted as the industry standard. industry standard for stereo television broadcasting, endorsed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1984. GE buys RCA.)