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Ford launches app developer challenge to improve consumer understanding of personal fuel efficiency

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Ford launched a $50,000 challenge for software developers to write innovative apps to help consumers better understand and improve their personal fuel efficiency. Participants will have access to Ford’s OpenXC connectivity research platform as a sandbox to create and test their ideas for the Personalized Fuel Efficiency Apps Challenge.

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Ford opening up Silicon Valley research lab

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Ford Motor Company plans to open a Silicon Valley-based Research Lab—its first dedicated R&D office on the west coast—to scout for new technology and to find new partners to innovate personal mobility solutions for the future. and Ford employees working with connectivity platform partner Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, Wash.

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Using Manga to Spark Interest in STEM

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The idea for Sher-DeCusatis’s second comic, she says, came from a personal experience she had while volunteering for IEEE. In the story, Riko-chan and a friend are able to escape being hit by a car while crossing a busy road. IEEE Member Kit August submitted the story on her behalf.

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Taking your electric car abroad: everything you need to know

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Who doesn’t love those giddy feelings of anticipation as you pack up the car, polish your sunglasses and put together a playlist of your favourite driving songs? But if you’re driving an electric car abroad, you might have a few questions. Next, you need to ensure your car insurance covers you for driving abroad.

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This IEEE Society’s Secret to Boosting Student Membership

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The students had a hand in creating a welcome kit for conference attendees. The new IDEA (inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility) travel grant for underrepresented groups was established by the society’s IEEE Women in Engineering committee and its chair, Karinne Ramirez Amaro. program at Heidelberg.

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Down to the wire for final round of public voting in DOE Apps for Vehicles challenge

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Nearly 40 teams initially submitted ideas for the $50,000 Apps for Vehicles Challenge that seeks to improve safety and fuel efficiency through data innovation. A mobile utility plus hardware, it works in all cars post-1996 in the US. unlocks the data stored in a market of 290 million cars in the US and EU alone, growing 30M a year.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible. MB of data.

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