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GM Opens New Design Studio, Teases Electric Corvette Concept

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General Motors is using an all-electric Corvette to draw attention to its new UK design studio in Royal Leamington Spa, outside of Birmingham. While the C9 Corvette is expected to debut as a 2029 model year, the automaker has asked its other design studios (Detroit, Los Angeles, Shanghai, and Seoul) to produce Corvette concepts for 2025.

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Paired Power’s EV chargers let customers mix and match solar, storage and grid power

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It’s designed to be set up in just one day. Tom McCalmont: PairTree is the product we’ve been selling for about a year, which is a pop-up solar canopy that can be a fully off-grid power source, or can be grid-connected. It’s our own design, and we make it here in the United States. Do you have an available grid connection?

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The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law

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But we have encountered another, quite surprising connection between supernovas and the human world specifically, a connection to the technology needed to make computer chips for the latest smartphones and other electronic devices. We designed a Rube Goldberg like system in which a molten droplet of tin is targeted by two laser beams.

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A Self-Balancing Exoskeleton Strides Toward Market

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But Angus, a jet-setting fashion designer , isnt the type to take such news lyingor sittingdown. Thats when she met a couple of academics at Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, who had a novel idea for an exoskeleton. The doctors found a benign tumor inside her spinal cord that couldnt be removed, and told her shed never walk again.

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Can a New Power Link Boost the EU’s Energy Independence?

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Stephen Anthony Rohan/Getty Images Because the Caucasus green-energy corridor promises greater grid stability by diversifying electricity sources, better trade connections, and help with the energy transition, Azerbaijans neighbors are vying to be included. But the ambitious idea didnt garner strong political or financial support.

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These Companies Were the Patent Powerhouses of 2024

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It is based on the idea that patents cited by later patents from many different fields tend to have more general application than patents cited only by later patents from the same field. Generality measures how varied the 2024 patents are that cite earlier patents from a given organization.

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2027 Slate Truck Previewed: Both Inspired And Inane

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Body panels are a composite material (designed to be dent resistant), base wheels futuristic steelies (painted black), and you get all the modern safety gear mandated by the government (with no extras). Of particular interest is the fact that this isn't strictly a "connected vehicle." We can actually run the updates through the phone.

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