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Tesla Model Y taxi fleet from Revel set for NYC launch after regulatory mix up

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Revel, a New York City-based ridesharing company, will launch its fleet of Tesla Model Y taxis in the Big Apple in early August after a mix-up with NYC’s regulatory agency, the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC). The company will also open a Superhub in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn with 25 Level 3 chargers.

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Granville T. Woods: Smartest Guy in the Room

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Davidson, are the subjects of Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation by Rayvon Fouché (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). Now a professor of communication studies with a dual appointment in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Ill.,

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

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Such implanted stimulators are currently approved for only a few medical conditions, but Elon Musk has claimed that his neurotech company, NeuralinkCorp. , Other companies sell noninvasive neurotech directly to consumers for applications such as. The Flow headset from Kernel uses near-infrared light to measure blood flow in the brain.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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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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How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records

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It served cell service and tech companies with geofence warrants—search warrants demanding details on every device and app active within a specified geographic area. The FBI did not use anything new. The legal documents suggest that about 35 rioters were identified this way, without first being named by witnesses.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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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

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His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. While working toward his Ph.D.

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