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McLaren P1 successor, Alpine A290: Today’s Car News

Baua Electric

The first is due in 2024 and will be previewed shortly by a concept dubbed the A290 Beta. French performance marque Alpine is working on multiple electric vehicles, with some potentially destined for sale in the U.S. Alfa Romeo has introduced a second update for its Giulia and Stelvio models.

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BP and Maersk collaborating to develop next-generation offshore drilling rigs for Project 20K

Green Car Congress

BP and Maersk Drilling will collaborate on concepts for deepwater drilling rigs that can operate in high-pressure and high-temperature reservoirs up to 20,000 pounds per square inch and 350 degrees Fahrenheit (177 °C). BP also sees potential applications for the technology in Egypt, Azerbaijan and other deepwater basins around the world.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

Cars That Think

He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. Two weeks later he had a fairly fleshed-out group of concepts to present to his collaborator at Rand, Richard Bellman. His parents—his father a businessman and newspaper correspondent, his mother a doctor—were comfortably well off. “I