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Tomorrow’s AI Will Reason Like Humans, IBM Watson Developer Predicts

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When David Nahamoo was a high school student in Iran, he wanted to pursue a career in mathematics or physics. But after talking over career options with his friends, he says, he was "pointed in the direction of a good career in Iran" and instead decided to become an electrical engineer. CHOOSING A DIFFERENT PATH.

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MIT and IEA reports take different views of the future of natural gas in transportation

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While compressed natural gas (CNG) will play a role, particularly for high-mileage fleets, the report suggests that the chemical conversion of gas into some form of liquid fuel may be the best pathway to significant market penetration. emissions are reduced by around 25% relative to the use of gasoline for the same engine efficiency.

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Surge in natural gas vehicles predicted

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The eyes of the world may be on developments in electric and hybrid car engineering, but according to Cleantech research firm Pike Research, it is a surge in the number of natural gas vehicles on the road that we should be looking out for. It has also forecast that the market will grow globally at a rate of 5.5 per cent between 2008 and 2015.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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It was founded in 1987 by a former People's Liberation Army officer and Party member and got its start reverse engineering telephone switching equipment from Hong Kong. Huawei has long been regarded as a rogue player in the international telecoms market with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

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Groundbreaking in Turkmenistan for major synthetic gasoline plant; first full-scale Haldor Topsøe TIGAS facility

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In August, a groundbreaking ceremony was held in Ovadan-Depe near the capital of Ashgabad in Turkmenistan to launch the construction of a major plant focused on the conversion of natural gas into synthetic gasoline. and the Turkish contractor Rönesans Turkmen to engineer and construct the facility.

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Integrated solar-driven system for electrochemical energy storage and water electrolysis for H2 production

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A team from UCLA and colleagues from Tarbiat Modares University and Shahed University in Iran have devised an integrated solar-powered system for both electrochemical energy storage and water electrolysis. Now you can make both electricity and fuel with a single device. Rahmanifar, Maher F. El-Kady, Abolhassan Noori, Mir F. 2017.09.010.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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Schneider: And from our earlier conversations, you told me about a class that you were teaching. Cybersecurity is not primarily a technical problem that requires an engineering solution, but it primarily is a political problem which requires a human solution. So I think that lawyers and engineers are at root the same.

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