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SpaceX’s Starlink officially goes online in Indonesia

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“I’m very excited to bring connectivity to places that have low connectivity,” Musk said during the visit (via Reuters ). “We are focusing this event on Starlink and the benefits that connectivity brings to remote islands,” Musk said. “If you have access to the internet you can learn anything.”

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CPT launching water-cooled electric supercharger for commercial diesel engines

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At the 17 th Supercharging conference this week in Dresden, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will launch what it says is the first water-cooled electric supercharger developed for “quasi-continuous” boosting of commercial diesel engines, including those developed for off highway applications. Cobra electric supercharger.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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AT&T named him chief scientist, and in that position he worked on developing architecture and protocols for a large-scale Internet so that customers could connect to it from their homes. In 1969 he was tasked with helping to build transmission lines in Bangladesh that connected the country’s eastern and western electrical grids.

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Containment Dome Lowered in Water

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Oil washes onto the sides of the pollution containment chamber as it is lowered into the water at the Deepwater Horizon site. Once lowered to the sea bed, the next steps will be to connect the cofferdam to a ship on the surface for recovery of the leaking hydrocarbons. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3 rd Class Patrick Kelley.

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MIT autonomous boats can target and latch onto each other: dynamic roboat structures

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The idea is to build a fleet of autonomous robotic boats—rectangular hulls equipped with sensors, thrusters, microcontrollers, GPS modules, cameras, and other hardware—that provides intelligent mobility on water to relieve congestion in the city’s busy streets.

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Aptera Gamma makes appearance in Switzerland

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The Aptera Gamma has appeared in the mountains of Switzerland at an investing conference. Aptera has been working toward production of its launch edition vehicle, and the company has been working to secure additional funding to keep its head above water during this period.

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CATL to build new $280M, 80 tpy LFP cathode materials plant in China

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In a speech at the China EV100 conference, CATL Chairman Zeng Yuqun observed that global lithium battery market demand will increase significantly starting this year, but added that the growth of capacity supply in the entire industry chain is relatively slow, and effective supply is insufficient.

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