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BMW updates BMW Connected with expanded services, device support and availability

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The personal mobility companion BMW Connected already comprises many functions designed to help users with their daily mobility needs. Using the Open Mobility Cloud as a basis, it connects touchpoints such as smartphones and smartwatches with users’ cars, thus weaving the car into their digital lives.

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BT Group Converts Telecom Infrastructure to EV Chargers

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BT Group says more cabinets in Scotland, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland will be repurposed in the coming months—as many as 600 such conversions by the end of 2024. BT Group’s design will allow each street cabinet to offer two 7.4-kilowatt The first such conversion has already been completed in East Lothian, Scotland.

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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. This stretch, called Iris, will link Iceland to Ireland. But now, Électricité de France (EDF) says they are in the final stretch.

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QUB spin-out to commercialize to technique for production of MOFs; storage for natural gas vehicles

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Chemists at Queen’s University Belfast (Ireland) have devised a novel environmentally friendly technique which allows the rapid production of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Example of mechanochemical production of a MOF. Pichon et al. Click to enlarge. NGV applications.

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myenergi | Celebrating 5 years of Tech Innovation

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We founded myenergi in 2016 as a partnership between two friends – electronics engineer Lee Sutton and marketing afficionado Jordan Brompton. myenergi, the award-winning designer and manufacturer of renewable energy products for eco-smart home management, is celebrating its fifth anniversary milestone. We wouldn’t be here without you!

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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Allan Alcorn, shown here in 2011, designed Pong as an exercise, to learn about how to design video games. The game was actually created as part of a training exercise to get a young engineer named. Connected to the novelty factor is that. IEEE Spectrum’s special projects editor Stephen Cass grew up in Ireland.

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Linda Doyle Blasts Through Ireland’s Academic Glass Ceiling

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The IEEE senior member is an alum of its engineering program and has taught at the university since the mid-1990s. Linda Doyle Employer Trinity College Dublin Title Provost Member grade Senior member Alma maters University College Cork, in Ireland, and Trinity College Dublin Being provost is “like managing a small town,” she says.

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