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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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AT&T named him chief scientist, and in that position he worked on developing architecture and protocols for a large-scale Internet so that customers could connect to it from their homes. In 1969 he was tasked with helping to build transmission lines in Bangladesh that connected the country’s eastern and western electrical grids.

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Tesla opens longest Supercharger route from east to west along China’s historic Silk Road

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It forged trade networks in Central Asian countries, including Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgzstan, along with modern-day India and Pakistan. BRI lays out China’s plan to build railways, ports, highways, and other infrastructure that will connect the East with the West. The road also extended into Europe.

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GSMA study indicates Bangkok could gain US$1B per year in benefits through ITS; reduced travel time, CO2 emissions and accidents

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A new case-based research report produced by the GSMA — Building Digital Societies in Asia: Making Transportation Smarter — indicates that the successful implementation of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in the capital city of Thailand could reduce travel times between two to four days per commuter per year.

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IEA finds CO2 emissions flat for third straight year even as global economy grew in 2016

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The overall increase in the world’s nuclear net capacity last year was the highest since 1993, with new reactors coming online in China, the United States, South Korea, India, Russia and Pakistan. Five new nuclear reactors were connected to the grid in China, increasing its nuclear generation by 25%.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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On a visit to Pakistan with his parents, 7-year-old Aadeel Akhtar met a girl his age who was missing her right leg. Twenty-one years later, in 2015, the IEEE member founded Psyonic , which designs and builds advanced, affordable artificial limbs. I loved everything about engineering, programming, and building things," he says. "I

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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When you encourage people to spread falsities to get advertising and make money, then this thing kind of builds on itself. He worked in bookstores and then started a fashion business with his friends while planning his escape from Iran through Pakistan in 1982. It’s a very dangerous situation,” Alamouti warns. Wireless innovator.

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U.K. Startup’s Digital Dyeing Printers Save Energy, Water

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At the end of a visit at a major textile dyeing factory, his customer took him behind the buildings to show a horrific scene: A blood-red river—wastewater from the dye baths leaching into the soil and entering the rivers. Then in Portugal, Turkey, but mainly in Asia: Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh.

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