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Oh Crap: Sewage Leak Causes Chaos on Connecticut Interstate

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A tractor-trailer leaking sewage onto a portion of I-95 in Connecticut resulted in numerous crashes and some impromptu off-roading this week. Reports from the Connecticut State Police specify that the incident took place in Fairfield County around 11 P.M. & [Images: Connecticut State Police] Become a& TTAC& insider.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Meanwhile, he wrote poetry, played the flute, became a renowned public intellectual writing about the confluence of art and science, and even taught himself to speak French well enough to supervise an electrical lighting installation working with francophones in Montreal. A Black Boston minister paid to free him.

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DOE releases three reports showing strong growth in US fuel cell and hydrogen market

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Costs continued to decline, especially for light duty vehicle applications; the cost per kilowatt (kW) for high volume production of transportation fuel cells moved closer to DOE’s target of $30 per kW. Light duty vehicles. States of the States, Fuel Cells in America 2013.

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Tesla Model Y from Giga Texas is just one EPA approval away from first deliveries

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Currently, the Model Y from Gigafactory Texas is being produced with Tesla’s newest 4680 battery cells and new structural battery pack, has not gained its Certificate of Conformity, a document needed for a vehicle to be introduced into commerce. Texas withdrew its intentions to adopt CARB standards in 2007, State documents revealed.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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After all, what use was a screen that could show documents in multiple type styles and a network that could transmit them from place to place without some means of printing them efficiently? Even today, he said, he receives laser-printed documents from universities in which he can recognize the Dover typefaces.

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Twitter Files part 14 sheds light on “Russian bots” and #ReleaseTheMemo

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The Twitter Files part 14, written by independent journalist, Matt Taibbi, shed light on a false narrative of Russian bots and the hashtag #ReleaseTheMemo. Taibbi, who was given access to the internal documents at Twitter by Elon Musk, released a new installment on Thursday. Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal also wrote a letter.

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