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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

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AT, in its most basic form, is anything that helps a person achieve enhanced performance, improved function, or accelerated access to information. Beyond that, assistive technology is a core part of the military's long-term strategic plan. Wired Magazine refers to this layered reality as the "Mirrorworld." Kevin Kelly of.

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Driver Takes Down a 113-Year-Old Salt Tram Tower in Death Valley

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A video of the incident , published by Outside magazine, showed a white pickup truck, partially immersed in mud, its tires spinning in place. The person, who was not publicly identified by the Park Service, used the tower as an anchor to try to pull the pickup out of the mud. The project bankrupted the Saline Valley Salt Company.

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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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To this day, Bush’s article—titled “As We May Think”—and his subsequent elaborations of networked information appliances are credited with shaping what would become the personal computer and the World Wide Web. Alas, tragedy unfolds when the panel punishes Oppenheimer for his opposition to testing the nation’s first hydrogen bomb.

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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

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The magazine was successful in its aim, but it also demonstrated that it takes a very determined driver and an elaborate set of procedures to bypass Tesla’s driver-monitoring systems. . The magazine’s team seemed to have buckled in the driver’s seatbelt without a person sitting in the seat.

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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

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Gerard “Gus” Gaynor says he knew he would become an engineer when he was 7 years old, inspired by his father’s monthly Popular Mechanics magazines. We couldn’t afford to pay [US] $350 to buy a machine at that time, so we had to build our own,” he says. Gaynor says the best part about being an IEEE volunteer is the camaraderie.

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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

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Her work at the plant, her academic research, and her involvement in IEEE have helped Ansari build her community within the global nuclear industry. She was inspired by her parents, who worked in biology, and by her reading of physics journals and engineering and science magazines. By working together, we mitigate accidents.”

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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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Construction on the four-story building, nicknamed the spaceship , was completed in 2017. On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next." Jobs led Apple in building technological systems , not simply products, and that distinct strategy made Apple Apple. Focus on design.

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