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DECEMBER 30, 2023

This 1980s earworm of a jingle touted a gadget to turn your lights, your TV, or any other electrical device on or off with the clap of your hands. In 1985, Peter Liljequist and Kou Chen filed a Canadian patent for an acoustic switch for turning lights and other appliances on and off. The Clapper!” His biggest hit was the Chia Pet.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The standard (T/CSAE 53-2107) was developed by a working group led by General Motors, together with Tsinghua University and Chang’an Auto, with the support of the China Industry Innovation Alliance for the Intelligent and Connected Vehicles. It specifies the 17 applications in six aspects: Application definition. Main Scenes.

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AUGUST 5, 2010

has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute (HNEI) of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and the Hawai’i Electric Light Company to supply a one-megawatt ALTI-ESS energy storage system for a test of wind energy integration. Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

patent application for a “new and improved orrery,” Musser mentioned the importance of showing the asteroid belt, in light of growing interest in space travel beyond the moon and Mars. A translucent screen had astronomical labels and markings inscribed in phosphorus, visible only when backlit with ultraviolet light. In his 1958 U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

He’s both a former member of the admissions committee at Yale University and now runs Advantage Ivy Tutoring , a service that coaches high school students to help them make the most of their academic abilities and extracurricular interests. One bugaboo for universities has been false positives.

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JULY 31, 2022

Needless to say, Tesla’s laser-etched photo mosaic is definitely interesting — possibly even confounding any extraterrestrial that may find it floating around in space sometime in the future. Tesla ultimately sent this email at the beginning of June this year. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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JULY 31, 2022

Sitting in his shirtsleeves at an industrial beige metal desk piled with papers, amid dented bookcases, gym bag in the corner, he does not look like anybody’s definition of a star engineer. the John Bardeen professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana , and the creator of the first LEDs.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The distribution of California’s clean vehicle rebates across different socioeconomic groups has been uneven, with higher income groups more likely to receive rebates, according to a new study by a team from the University of California, Berkeley. —Evelyne St-Louis.

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

Before failing eyesight forced him into retirement in 1922 at age 74, he had proved himself the definition of a renaissance man. This highly detailed mechanical drawing of an Edison lamp appeared in Latimer’s 1890 book “Incandescent Electric Lighting.” He even mastered the glassblowing techniques then used to produce lightbulbs.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Jupiter’s northern (and southern) lights Jupiter's polar auroras are the largest and most powerful known in the solar system—and O'Donoghue says the energy in them, caused as Jupiter's atmosphere is buffeted by solar wind, is strong enough to heat the outer atmosphere of the entire planet. Photos, from top: A. Keck Observatory; A.

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JULY 19, 2022

The scholarship is administered on behalf of IEEE Educational Activities and is payable over four years of undergraduate university study. Schumann says he plans to study electrical engineering at a technical university in Berlin. The BCI system is connected with the home’s circuit, which controls lights, appliances, and more.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) recently conducted an online survey of driver option to determine how receptive drivers would be to adopting—and how much they might pay for—in-vehicle technology that reduce carbon emissions. Driver valuation.

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

A new, internationally-representative survey by researchers from the University of Calgary, Harvard University and Simon Fraser University found that 72% of respondents approved research into geoengineering. —Professor David Keith of Harvard University.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

Visiting PreLaunch’s new “Gallery of Flops” is definitely on my agenda.) Carbon nanotubes for touch-free presence sensing Somalytics claims its paper-based, carbon-nanotube sensors, developed by University of Washington researchers in collaboration with CoMotion , can detect the presence of human tissue up to 20 centimeters away.

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APRIL 30, 2022

Universal Images Group/Getty Images. In 1876, Thomson had received a scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College, and four years later he graduated with a degree in mathematics. When they placed a magnet near the cathode, the light spread out in a pattern similar to iron filings around a magnet.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

What they actually see is effectively the shadow cast by the sodium atoms as they fluoresce when illuminated by laser light, a technique known as absorption imaging. Of course there can; the universe is quantum. But if you use atoms rather than light, you should be able to do the job better, because atoms are so much slower.

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MARCH 20, 2024

So, lacking a more definitive authority, the Chang’e-5 mission plan will be treated as providing sufficient indications of the course of Chang’e-6’s upcoming mission.) After an initial deceleration at 15 kilometers above the surface, the lander will reorient itself to a vertical position when two kilometers up.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Alma mater: University of Maryland in College Park. Barth initially attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, to pursue a degree in biology, but she soon realized that it wasn’t a good fit for her. She transferred to the University of Maryland in College Park, and changed her major to applied mathematics.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

In a world that hadn’t seen a monochrome display in a very long time—TVs made the switch in the 1960s, computer monitors in the late ’80s—a monochrome display was definitely quaintly old school. In E Ink’s Triton and Kaleido displays, color filters turn light reflected from white particles into red, green, and blue subpixels.

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JANUARY 12, 2016

Typical autonomous vehicle sensors are useless on snow-covered roads, but researchers at the University of Michigan and Ford are collaborating on a solution. LiDAR emits short pulses of laser light to precisely allow the vehicle to create a real-time, high-definition 3D image of what’s around it.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

CoalTek, teaming with the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research in Lexington, Ky., Duke University in Durham, N.C., and the University of North Dakota Energy and Environment Research Center in Grand Forks, N.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, Va.)-Partnering

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

An essential element of the transportation mix of modern industrialized society, they are inherently less amenable to the type of electrification and hybridization strategies that are already contributing to reduced carbon emissions and potential long-term sustainability for the light vehicle sector.

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APRIL 25, 2017

Issued January 2014, SAE international’s J3016 provides a common taxonomy and definitions for automated driving. —Professor Paul Newman, Head of the Oxford Robotics Institute based at the University of Oxford, and one of Oxbotica’s founders. Source: SAE International.

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JUNE 30, 2015

A new technique developed by a team of researchers led by Eric Stach at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Anatoly Frenkel at Yeshiva University reveals atomic-scale changes during catalytic reactions in real time and under real operating conditions. —Ralph Nuzzo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, co-author.

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JUNE 29, 2023

Torres Quevedo invented his electromechanical device in 1912 and publicly debuted it at the University of Paris two years later. Its Definition. Torres Quevedo hoped his chess player would shed some light on the matter, but I think he just opened a Pandora’s box of questions. Si definición.

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MARCH 14, 2014

Baker Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory concludes that starting the California ZEV (Zero Emission Vehicle) mandates five years earlier or doubling their intensity increases upfront costs but also increases benefits by a greater amount. A study by a team from the Howard H.

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MAY 31, 2013

Freescale and Tongji University in Shanghai developed an anti-pinch window lift reference design, which demonstrates the capabilities of the S12 MagniV portfolio. There is a big feedback loop of capability, Tier 1s, universities, OEMS. Target applications are instrument cluster, window lift, HVAC control and LED lighting.

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JULY 26, 2018

Researchers from the University of Cambridge, with colleagues from Argonne National Laboratory in the US and Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, UK, have identified a group of materials—niobium tungsten oxides—that could be used to make even higher power batteries. —Professor Grey.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Atmospheric tests covering the entire country indicate emissions around 50 percent more than EPA estimates ,” said lead author Adam Brandt at Stanford University. Definitions of error bar bounds vary between studies. (US, US, United States; Can, Canada; SC, South Central; Petrol.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

Although Second Sight had ceased virtually all operations, there was a glimmer of light with the prospect of a merger with biotech startup Nano Precision Medical , which was developing its own implant for drug delivery. It works, we could definitely drive plasticity. It just didn’t work as well as we thought it would.”

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

The initiative intends to accelerate the widespread deployment of significantly improved fuels and vehicles (passenger to light truck to heavy duty commercial vehicles) by 2030. The Optima initiative is focused on the development of new fuels and engine architectures that are co-optimized—i.e., Earlier post.)

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MAY 10, 2017

Chemists from the US Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and their collaborators have definitively identified the active sites of a catalyst commonly used for making methanol from CO 2. These electronic “signatures” contain information about the oxidation state of the atoms the electrons came from—whether zinc or zinc oxide.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. Menus list choices of action. But the development of today’s graphical user interface was anything but simple.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

For light-duty vehicles this means providing a driving range of more than 300 miles (500 km), while meeting packaging, cost, safety, and performance requirements to be competitive with current vehicles. The program made three new awards in FY 2014: HRL Laboratories, with partners SNL and University of Missouri-St. kWh/kg system (7.5

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

A study by a team from the University of Leeds (UK), University of Washington (USA) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has found that vehicle automation might plausibly reduce road transport GHG emissions and energy use by nearly half—or nearly double them—depending on the scenario. Wadud et al. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 29, 2023

Torres Quevedo invented his electromechanical device in 1912 and publicly debuted it at the University of Paris two years later. Its Definition. Torres Quevedo hoped his chess player would shed some light on the matter, but I think he just opened a Pandora’s box of questions. Si definición.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

A new study by Ryan Kellogg, a professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and author of the study, evaluates the current approach and proposes a novel, market-based alternative: indexing the standard to rise and fall with the price of gasoline. the current surge in SUVs vs diminishing interest in small cars).

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