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Vodafone Launches Private 5G Tech to Compete With Wi-Fi

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wireless connectivity standard ) was once the only viable game in town. The company has teamed with the Surrey, England-based Lime Microsystems to release a crowd-funded range of private 5G base station kits ranging in price from US $800 to $12,000. “In Santiago Tenorio holds one of Lime Microsystems’ private 5G base station kits.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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Purpose-built electric bikes and e-bike conversions using hub-motors are now commonplace. That got me thinking, how hard would it be, and how much would it cost, to do a simple conversion now? That got me thinking, how hard would it be, and how much would it cost, to do a simple conversion now? If anything, it's gone up.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

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Purpose-built electric bikes and e-bike conversions using hub-motors are now commonplace. That got me thinking, how hard would it be, and how much would it cost, to do a simple conversion now? That got me thinking, how hard would it be, and how much would it cost, to do a simple conversion now? If anything, it's gone up.

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Hologram-in-a-Box Can Teleport You Anywhere

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I got to see a live demonstration of the PORTL technology this month, when a tech investor in PORTL, Marina Haba in Los Angeles, was beamed into a PORTL booth set up in a Tokyo apartment to speak with her son there. It was as if Haba was standing in the booth as the two conversed. meters tall, 1.5 m wide, and 0.6

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NYU Researchers Paving New Path for Robotics

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He recently received an equipment donation from Intuitive Foundation comprising a Da Vinci research kit which is a surgical system that will allow his team to devise means by which a surgeon in one location may be able to operate on a patient located somewhere else—a different city, region or even continent.

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Tesla Inside: The Ultimate Vintage Land Rover Retrofit

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This Defender, known for raiding tombs , has raided Tesla’s temple of tech. For this baby-blue Rover, the conversion includes a powerful electric drive unit from a. A port mounted on a rear fender connects a standard CCS ( Combined Charging System ) plug to an onboard 7-kW charger. Around the world, specialists like E.C.D.

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An E-mail from Azure Dynamics about the DMOC445

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I recently sent off an e-mail to Azure Dynamics, the maker of the DMOC445 AC motor controller in the 914 kit. I would like to express my sincere appreciation for all the tech support that Azure Dynamics has provided. If so, do you sell a device that I can connect to them? Not active Do the amp-hour counter input/outputs work?

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