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Europe Mandates Automatic Emergency Braking

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In the United States all models that are new in 2022 come with it, although compliance is voluntary, pending formal rulemaking. Formal requirements came long afterwards—in Europe in 2004 and in the United States in 2012. This article appears in the January 2022 print issue as “Brakes That Slam Themselves.”.

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Chips to Compute With Encrypted Data Are Coming

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This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. I think this is the coolest technology of the last 20 years,” says Todd Austin , a hardware security expert at the University of Michigan, whose startup Agita Labs does a different form of secure computing in the Amazon and Microsoft clouds. “It billion fine for Meta.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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And yet this transformative invention took nearly two decades to make it out of the lab, with numerous companies in the United States, Europe, and Asia considering the technology and yet failing to recognize its potential. The University of Texas at Austin It was the first of many false starts for the rechargeable lithium battery.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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Alma mater: University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. “If The tokens, along with using smart contracts to reduce legal fees, would make real-time exchange and monetization feasible, he says. Employer: Mimik.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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Study Finds Government Mandates Superior to All Other Biofuels Policies, But Mixing With Subsidies Causes Adverse Effects; The Argument for a Direct CO2 Tax

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A new cost-benefit analysis of biofuels policies by economists Harry de Gorter and David Just at Cornell University has concluded that government mandates for biofuels “ are clearly superior to all other policies, with few tradeoffs arising.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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People could buy the machines at ComputerLand , a popular retail chain in the United States. But it took more than a year and scores of meetings for IBM's contract and legal teams to authorize the terms. Some 4,000 IBMers already working in China would switch to Lenovo, along with 6,000 in the United States.

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