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MISC, Samsung Heavy, Lloyd’s Register and MAN partner to develop ammonia-fueled tanker

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The main challenge for ammonia is that it is highly toxic and even small accidents can create major risks to the crew and the environment. This builds on the technology development pathway that MAN ES presented at the NH3 Energy+ Topical Conference at Pittsburgh in October 2018.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Even in his home of Singapore, few people know of Tan or Trek. Today it is familiar worldwide. Why aren’t they more famous?

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ABI Research: automotive cellular V2X to challenge IEEE 802.11p/DSRC; spectrum issues loom large

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802.11p (also known as Wireless Access in Vehicular Environment, WAVE) is an approved amendment of 802.11—the —the basis for Wi-Fi—specifically adding access in vehicle environments. The US Federal Communication Commission (FCC) earlier allocated 75MHz of Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) spectrum at 5.9

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MIT team finds lead levels higher in Indian Ocean than northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans

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They are presenting their results this week at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Montreal. But while leaded gasoline usage has decreased drastically in the last few decades, lead is still pervasive in the environment. This research was funded by the Singapore National Research Foundation.

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MIT and Princeton researchers leverage smartphone cameras for collaborative traffic signal schedule advisory system; tests show 20% cut in fuel consumption

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In July, at the Association for Computing Machinery’s MobiSys conference, researchers from MIT and Princeton University took the best-paper award for a system that uses a network of smartphones mounted on car dashboards to collect information about traffic signals and to then tell drivers when slowing down could help them avoid waiting at lights.

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Your Robotic Avatar Is Almost Ready

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Under some fairly specific constraints, autonomous robots are starting to find a few valuable niches in semistructured environments, like offices and hospitals and warehouses. The 17 teams hailed from France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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UK Company to Introduce Hydrogen Fuel Cell Urban Car; Open Source Approach

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6 kW fuel cell (developed with Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies of Singapore). We believe different types of vehicle will fill different niches, and it makes abundant sense to choose different power trains for different environments. LCVP conference, 8 June 2009. The powertrain includes.

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