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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation. emissions for a century or more.

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This Startup Is Using AI to Help Keep Store Shelves Stocked

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The competition is for startups that have designed technologies for the consumer goods and retail industry. Wisy currently has 16 employees, who work in Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, and the United States. Slow or unavailable Internet connections posed another problem, Chen says. “We

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11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

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A Sea-Monster-Proof Internet The initial segment of what will be the first underwater fiber-optic link to skirt the North Pole, connecting Japan and Europe, will light up in early 2023. One will provide Internet to rural Peru, two will service airplanes and cruise liners, and the final satellite’s use is yet to be disclosed.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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Twenty-one years later, in 2015, the IEEE member founded Psyonic , which designs and builds advanced, affordable artificial limbs. Akhtar and Nguyen flew to Quito, Ecuador, to test their product on Juan Suquillo, who lost his left hand during a 1979 border war between Ecuador and Peru. Akhtar is the CEO.

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Weaponized Robots Letter Calls for Policy, Tech Fixes

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Plus any misperceptions that these misused robots could be autonomous (though they aren’t) makes an implied false connection between the actions of the robot and the ethics of the company. For Boston Dynamics, I can say that we prohibit and would condemn any device on the robot that is designed to harm humans.

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Maersk and IBM launch TradeLens blockchain shipping solution; 154+ million shipping events already captured on platform

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TradeLens is a blockchain-enabled shipping solution designed to promote more efficient and secure global trade, bringing together various parties to support information sharing and transparency. Pacific International Lines (PIL) have joined Maersk Line and Hamburg Süd as global container carriers participating in the solution.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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In 1976, Artwick wrote his master’s thesis on a flight simulator he’d designed to run on Digital Equipment Corp.’s Launched in 2001, Xbox was built to oppose Sony’s PlayStation 2, released in 2000, which had a DVD drive and could (with an accessory) connect to the Internet. s PDP-11 minicomputer.

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