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BAIC BJEV in strategic cooperation with Dresden University of Technology for lightweighting technology

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BAIC BJEV), a subsidiary of BAIC, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Dresden University of Technology (TUD) to create the Sino-German Automotive Light Weighting Technology Joint R&D Center. Beijing Electric Vehicle Co., Earlier post.).

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12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2022

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While China leads on number of publications, publication citations, and conference publications, the United States still leads on citations of conference publications, showing that prestigious papers from U.S. Universities Are Crawling With CS Students. researchers are still having an outsized impact.

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This 1920 Chess Automaton Was Wired to Win

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Torres Quevedo invented his electromechanical device in 1912 and publicly debuted it at the University of Paris two years later. Why isn’t Leonardo Torres Quevedo known outside Spain? Torres Quevedo’s design for the Whirlpool Aero Car, which offers a thrilling ride over Niagara River, debuted in 1916.

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What is Tesla’s Mystery Magnet?

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And then, out of nowhere, came an absolute bombshell: “We have designed our next drive unit, which uses a permanent-magnet motor, to not use any rare-earth elements at all,” declared Colin Campbell , Tesla’s director of power train engineering. It was a stunning disclosure, which left most experts in permanent magnetism wary and perplexed.

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This 1920 Chess Automaton Was Wired to Win

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Torres Quevedo invented his electromechanical device in 1912 and publicly debuted it at the University of Paris two years later. Why isn’t Leonardo Torres Quevedo known outside Spain? Torres Quevedo’s design for the Whirlpool Aero Car, which offers a thrilling ride over Niagara River, debuted in 1916.

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IEEE Humanitarian Program Sees Record Growth

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events last year, including the Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation for the SDGs and the Global Sustainable Technology and Innovation Community Conference. The committee also for the first time awarded funding for projects in Fiji and Spain. COLLABORATIONS The committee participated in several U.N.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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The Copenhagen timeline was designed to allow signatory countries two years to hash out details of their respective compliance issues so that a replacement protocol could be ratified and “entered into force”, or made operational internationally, by the time the Kyoto Protocol expires.

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