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BMW Connected North America makes its world debut at Microsoft Build 2016; powered by Azure

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BMW Connected, a new personal mobility companion, made its world debut at Microsoft Build 2016, Microsoft’s developer conference, last week. The first version—called BMW Connected North America—is now available at the Apple App Store to BMW ConnectedDrive customers in the US for iOS devices.

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Stories of the War in Ukraine: Volodymyr

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This personal account was written by Volodymyr Pyliavskyi , a senior researcher at the Odessa National Telecommunications Academy in Odessa, Ukraine. For so long I was planning to take part in IEEE conferences but due to what is happening I can’t,” Pyliavskyi told The Institute. “I It would be good for our family.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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That device, now known by a variety of names—including memory stick, USB stick, flash drive, as well as thumb drive—changed the way computer files are stored and transferred. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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Letting in the Light

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All four men felt that LEVs could eventually be one of the most important forms of personal transportation, and had already been supporting that cause. I took some surplus parts and motorcycle batteries… it was definitely Rube Goldberg style,” Smith explained. Martin had been working on LEVs in STEM programs and the EV Challenge.

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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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Discussions at chip design conferences rarely get heated. This year at that same conference, a leader in the field, IEEE Fellow Andrew Kahng , hoped to put an end to the acrimony once and for all. In Circuit Training and Morpheus, a separate algorithm fills in the gaps with the smaller parts, called standard cells.

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Berkeley Lab researchers develop Bchain protocol to make blockchain more robust

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Several banks, corporations, governments and scientists have already implemented some form of blockchain to inexpensively, securely and expediently store and share information. A paper describing the basics of BChain was published in 2014 the Proceedings of the 18 th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems.

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In Tesla Autopilot probe, US prosecutors focus on securities, wire fraud – ET Auto

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Prosecutors are far from deciding how to proceed, one of the sources said, in part because they are sifting through voluminous documents Tesla provided in response to subpoenas. Tesla videos demonstrating the technology that remain archived on its website say: “The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons.

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