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Canadian startup launches INDIEGOGO funding campaign for low-cost electric self-charging solar tricycle produced in Pakistan

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The simple engineering design is low maintenance due to having a minimalized drive train as the hub motor (1 kW brushless motor) is directly attached to the rear wheel. Producing an average speed of 30 km/h, the VEGAN has a top speed of 70 km/h—via increased acceleration through its own designed internal gear hub.

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Russia’s KAMAZ to create artificial city as autonomous driving testing ground

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According to Sergey Nazarenko, chief designer of innovative products for KAMAZ’s R&D Center, similar artificial cities as testing grounds can be found at Volvo in Switzerland, with another under construction for Daimler in Germany. It has assemblers in Vietnam, Iran, India, Kazakhstan, and Pakistan.

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HEI: 95%+ of world’s population live in areas of unhealthy air

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China has made initial progress, beginning to achieve air pollution declines; in contrast, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India have experienced the steepest increases in air pollution levels since 2010.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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His research interests included the design and fabrication of neuromorphic devices and circuits, flash memories, and silicon quantum devices. Five years after graduating in 1952, he joined utility company Hydro-Québec in Montreal as a systems design engineer. He worked at the university at the time of his death.

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Axial Vector and Kirloskar Oil Engines Forming JV for Mass Production of Axial-Type Engines

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The marketing rights of the joint venture company will extend to all South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries: India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Tier-III designs are in progress. KOEL manufactures more than 200,000 diesel engines per year.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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On a visit to Pakistan with his parents, 7-year-old Aadeel Akhtar met a girl his age who was missing her right leg. Twenty-one years later, in 2015, the IEEE member founded Psyonic , which designs and builds advanced, affordable artificial limbs. That was the first time he had met a person with a limb difference. Akhtar is the CEO.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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He worked in bookstores and then started a fashion business with his friends while planning his escape from Iran through Pakistan in 1982. Alamouti began his engineering career as a part-time contract worker designing and building mobile-data protocols for taxi dispatch systems at Mobile Data International , in Vancouver. in Burnaby.