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Teen Creates App To Identify Nutrient Deficiencies

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In 2020, as a sophomore at South Brunswick High School in New Jersey, Tiwari was learning remotely during the coronavirus pandemic, and he found himself bored. He presented his app at last year’s IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Reality during an event hosted in collaboration with Amazon Web Services.

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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

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After the war, he joined American Electric Power in Columbus, Ohio, as an assistant engineer. He worked in managerial positions in New York, Ohio, and Virginia, then became AEP's chief executive in 1976 and served in that role until he retired in 1991. Former CEO of American Electric Power Life senior member, 94; died 4 July.

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Halcrow Presents Conceptual Design for Storm Surge Barrier to Protect the New York Metro Area

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Halcrow, a specialist in the provision of planning, design and management services for infrastructure development, has presented a conceptual design for an outer harbor gateway to protect the New York and New Jersey metropolitan areas from severe coastal flooding resulting from storm surges, along with rising sea-levels due to climate change.

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Paige's AI Diagnostic Tech is Revolutionizing Cancer Diagnosis

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But his desire to understand how the human brain works led him to switch from physics to electrical engineering and ultimately to pursue signal processing at the University of Vermont. AI is a mix of psychology, engineering, computer science, and a little bit of philosophy. Grady is now the chief executive of Paige , in New York City.

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How to Get Started with EV Charging for Hotels and Resorts

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Mostly served by Direct Current Fast Chargers (DCFCs) which can typically charge a fully-electric vehicle in under an hour, on-the-go charging can be compared to stopping at the gas station to fill up an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle.

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Ford begins roll-out of Focus Electric; electrifying the platform efficiently

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The Focus Electric is powered by a 23 kWh Li-ion battery pack engineered by Ford using pouch cells from LG Chem; an advanced active liquid cooling and heating system preconditions and regulates the temperature. The Focus Electric shares 78% of its parts with the conventional Focus, he noted, and comes off the same line. An on-board 6.6

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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Whittingham, a young British chemist, joined the quest at Exxon Research and Engineering in New Jersey in the fall of 1972. One consultant recommended Battery Engineering, a tiny firm based in a converted truck garage in the Hyde Park area of Boston. Whittingham’s battery was unlike anything that had preceded it.