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Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

The Truth About Cars

This could be as simple as a company offering employees a transit pass or as complicated as a corporation helping to refurbish bus stations. Subsidies will also be awarded to businesses (via a points system) based around offering services encouraging public transportation and bicycling. But this is but a singular component.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

Cars That Think

And yet this transformative invention took nearly two decades to make it out of the lab, with numerous companies in the United States, Europe, and Asia considering the technology and yet failing to recognize its potential. In contrast, Whittingham’s new chemistry produced an astonishing 2.4 The first iteration, developed by M.

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COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans

Green Car Congress

The declaration is not legally binding and is focused on a global level. We will support efforts to achieve the road transport breakthrough announced by world leaders, which aims to make zero emission vehicles the new normal by making them accessible, affordable and sustainable in all regions by 2030. …

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

Cars That Think

It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. the company formed by Apple cofounder Steven Jobs after he left Apple—they are dumped into a Black Hole.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

Hoff had already been contemplating the possibilities of industrial jobs when he received a telephone call from Robert Noyce, who told him he was starting a new company, Intel Corp., First, they felt that all the chips Intel could make would go for several years to one company, so there was little point in marketing them to others.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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On February 11, 1955, an anonymous tip led two New York Police Department detectives and two New York Telephone Company investigators to an apartment on the fourth floor of a residential building at 360 East 55th Street in midtown Manhattan. New York City private investigator and attorney John G.

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GM, Segway partner on two-wheel city vehicle | Green Tech - CNET News

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Credit: GM) General Motors and Segway plan to take a two-wheel concept vehicle for a spin around New York City on Tuesday. The prototype vehicle, called Project PUMA (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), is designed to ease congestion and pollution problems in cities. GM is touting other features as well.

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