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Study finds all-electric rideshare fleet could reduce carbon emissions, but increase traffic issues

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They used the model and the data to estimate the life cycle air pollution, greenhouse gas, and traffic externality benefits and costs of serving rides based on Chicago TNC trip data from 2019 to 2022 with fully electric vehicles. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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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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The Relay That Changed the Power Industry

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Advances in power electronics Power system faults can happen when a tree or vehicle hits a power line, a grid operator makes a mistake, or equipment fails. A protection scheme should quickly isolate the fault from the rest of the grid, thus limiting damage on the spot and preventing the fault from spreading to the rest of the system.

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The Day the U.S. TV Industry Died

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But at about $1000, the flat tube is not a consumer product and instead is benefiting Zenith’s latest focus of interest-its relatively new and highly profitable personal computer business. Chicago Radio Laboratory established; later adopts as its trade name Z-Nth, the identification of an amateur radio station. Then, the Glenview, Ill.,

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TWAICE battery analytics platform promises enormously valuable insights at every point in a battery’s lifecycle

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Michael Baumann: I’ve always been a very technology-passionate and technology-driven person, and I wanted to make an impact with technology for the planet and for our society. Charged : The energy players you mentioned, you’re talking about stationary storage on the grid? Charged : Tell us about the origins of the company.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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He left Tokyo in 2013 to become president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and served in that position until 2019. Among the awards he received was a 2016 Bunka Korosha (Person of Cultural Merit) Award , one of the highest honors bestowed by the Japanese government. He earned a Ph.D. Burrus Jr.

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Is the Place to Go for Inventive Pastries and Fresh Bread

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The show features a new suite of giclée prints in which Rodriguez juxtaposes found photography with some of his own iPhone snaps, making various compositions atop grids, arcs and zigzagging lines that resemble bar graphs, invoking a sense of scientific or taxonomic connection between images that are, in fact, unrelated.