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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. They also consulted with Blind Industries and. The student team’s.

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MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

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Annual average concentrations of fine particulates from US sources of combustion emissions from (a) electric power generation; (b) industry; (c) commercial and residential sources; (d) road transportation; (e) marine transportation; (f) rail transportation; (g) sum of all combustion sources; (h) all sources. Source: MIT. Click to enlarge.

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Newly identified enzyme from hyperthermophilic archaea could assist cellulosic biofuels production

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Many industrial processes employ natural enzymes, some of them isolated from organisms that live in extreme environments, such as hot springs. However, many of these enzymes are not optimized for industrial processes. Hence the need to look in extreme environments for better enzymes.

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Rivian’s Amazon EV delivery van will drop packages in 100 cities by end of 2022

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by the end of the year, including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Fighting the effects of climate change requires constant innovation and action, and Amazon is partnering with companies who share our passion for inventing new ways to minimize our impact on the environment.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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he helped develop the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) , the first U.S. He accepted a new position in 1970 as head of the advanced development department in the Amecom Division of Litton Industries , a defense contractor in College Park, Md. At the defense electronics company, located in Greenlawn, N.Y., air defense system.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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In Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon , members of the fictitious Baltimore Gun Club, all disabled Civil War veterans, restlessly search for a new enemy to conquer. The body powered arm—in terms of its symbolism—(still) expresses the man-machine symbolism of an industrial society of the 1920s,”.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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The facility is a 70,000 square foot building located in an industrial zone in Lowell, Massachusetts. Halon 1301 Replacement: The MTA currently has approximately 5 metric tons of Halon 1301 deployed at 24 MTA facilities in and surrounding Baltimore City. as well as administrative and dispatch services.

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