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NASA adds 14 new partners to Advanced Air Mobility project’s National Campaign; urban air mobility

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Thirteen companies and one university have signed agreements with NASA’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) project’s National Campaign to continue work towards integrating air taxis, cargo delivery aircraft and other new air vehicle concepts into the national airspace system. SkyGrid, and The University of North Texas. Metron Aviation Inc.,

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Volvo Car outlines technological future: new Scalable Platform Architecture and focus on four-cylinder engines; Concept You

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In addition to the industrial benefits of common vehicle architecture there are also significant product related advantages such as weight; electrification; driving dynamics; design proportions; and weight reduction of 100-150 kg (220 to 331 lbs). Modularity and compact transverse design are also ideal for future electrification developments.

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Satellite method provides insight into ozone-NOx-VOCs sensitivity for different locations

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Both are represented in the study by a major gas of each type, the VOC formaldehyde and NO 2 , that are measureable from space by the Dutch-Finnish Ozone Monitoring Instrument aboard NASA’s Aura satellite, launched in 2004. This transition means that future NO x reductions will likely further decrease ozone production, said Jin.

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

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. As for the future impact of PARC research—the sky’s the limit. Laser printers.

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Finding Battery Minerals With AI

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Eliza Strickland: Hi, I’m Eliza Strickland for IEEE Spectrum ‘s Fixing the Future podcast. Josh, thanks so much for joining me on Fixing the Future. But it is almost universally agreed that the supply gap across those four metals to get to a fully electrified vehicle fleet is more than $10 trillion worth of those metals.