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MIT study says combustion emissions cause ~200,000 premature deaths/year in US; vehicles and power generation top sources

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Annual average concentrations of fine particulates from US sources of combustion emissions from (a) electric power generation; (b) industry; (c) commercial and residential sources; (d) road transportation; (e) marine transportation; (f) rail transportation; (g) sum of all combustion sources; (h) all sources. Source: MIT.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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Liquid Metal Battery Corp secures patent rights from MIT

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Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. Patents for all liquid metal battery inventions were licensed from MIT.

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How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah

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Their groundbreaking research, conducted at the University of Utah , in Salt Lake City, and at their company, Evans and Sutherland , helped jump-start the computer graphics industry. He helped develop hardware techniques that enabled commercial use of time-shared computer systems. thesis in 1963 at MIT.

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J.D. Power study: consumers possess inaccurate knowledge of fully automated self-driving vehicles

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While the automotive industry continues to move toward fully automated, self-driving vehicles, the pace is not being matched by educational efforts that will help bring buyers into the modern mobility movement. This is a ‘Danger, Will Robinson’ moment for the fully automated self-driving vehicle industry. By merging the quarterly J.D.

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Video Friday: Monocycle Robot With Legs

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The recent progress in commercial humanoids is just exhausting. Starship ] By blending 2D images with foundation models to build 3D feature fields, a new MIT method helps robots understand and manipulate nearby objects with open-ended language prompts. The bit at the end there was Nadia not quite managing to do lateral arm raises.

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Flexible printed perovskite solar achieves a record 11% efficiency

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The international team, led by the Australian government’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation ( CSIRO ), has developed a new method for producing roll-to-roll flexible printed solar cells that deliver unprecedented levels of efficiency. Printed solar cells are highly efficient, flexible, and decreasing in cost.

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