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High School Students Built This iPhone App for the Visually Impaired

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Atheia is a mobile app that makes observations about a user’s environment to improve spatial awareness and safety. In addition, the search feature directs users to objects in their environment through haptic feedback and audio instructions. “The immediate application we thought of was a visual aid for people with low or no vision.”.

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Tesla Model 3, $2.2M seized from man who fraudulently obtained COVID-19 relief loans

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Law enforcement agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Baltimore Field Office and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced the complaint following several attempts by Brooks, Jr. The man successfully received a $1.5 million payment from the Paycheck Protection Program and subsequently had $2.2

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Campaign Begins

Plug In Partners

For example, an area pest control company has pledged to buy up to 150 light weight plug-in trucks, once they are produced. As we increasingly turn to alternative technologies to improve the fuel economy of our vehicles, we will see increasing benefits to our economy, our environment, and our national security.”

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. New partners in recent months include: Denton, TX., Keene, N.H., Madison, Phoenix, Sacramento, Santa Ana, CA., Santa Barbara, CA., Irvine, CA.,

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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Boeing , with similar goals, announced that it would work with the National Bureau of Standards to lead the creation of an OSI protocol stack for technical and office environments, later to be named Technical and Office Protocols (TOP). These discussions culminated in the release of GM’s Manufacturing Automation Protocol (MAP) version 1.0

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