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United Airlines and Archer to launch first commercial electric air taxi route in Chicago

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Archer Aviation and United Airlines plan to launch the first air taxi route in Chicago, between O’Hare International Airport (ORD) and Vertiport Chicago. Vertiport Chicago, North America’s largest vertical aircraft take off and landing facility, is located in the Illinois Medical District near the Chicago Loop.

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NSF awards $20 million to two new testbeds to support cloud computing applications and experiments

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Cloud computing refers to the practice of using a network of remote servers to store, manage and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. —Kate Keahey, a scientist at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and principal investigator for Chameleon.

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A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium

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The first planetarium in the western hemisphere opened in Chicago in May 1930. A planetarium is often the first place where children connect what they see in the night sky to a broader science and an understanding of the universe. He called it a “classroom under the heavens.” My hometown of Richmond, Va.,

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Rusatom Overseas and CNNC New Energy to partner on floating nuclear power plants

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The delegation visited the Floating NPP Training Center and the Baltic Shipyard and met with the members of the team for the reference floating NPP construction project, and examined the floating power generating unit currently under construction. They might be connected to coastal infrastructure or float next to consumer.

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Help! Air Canada Ruined Our Trip to Ireland but Won’t Take the Blame.

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We had boarded our connecting flight in Toronto (and I was already dozing in my seat) when the captain announced an operator had crashed the jet bridge into the starboard engine. We were given hotel vouchers and told we would be rebooked for the next day. Classic denied boarding is what you’re describing,” he said. The post Help!

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How the First Transistor Worked

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In the cutaway photo of a point-contact, two thin conductors are visible; these connect to the points that make contact with a tiny slab of germanium. Now we connect the collector. The field effect was already well known in those days, thanks to diodes and related research on semiconductors. The interface between the.

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. There were 30 or 40 nodes on the ARPANET at the time. Why would he step back now?

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