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Porsche testing blockchain applications in cars

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This process ensures that all activities are documented in the blockchain in a way that prevents them from being modified, and can be viewed using an app. All activities are documented in the blockchain, making deletions transparent. seconds, the process of opening and closing the car via an app is up to six times faster than before.

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

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for 33 years before he joined Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., After graduating from high school at the top of his class, he earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1975 from the University of Tehran , then a master's degree in EE from Imperial College London in 1976. as vice president for research.

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. They put together documentation on how the minigrid worked, created a budget, and applied for a grant from the IEEE Foundation. “I

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COVID-19 Forced Us All to Experiment. What Have We Learned?

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A scholarly literature has documented this process in fields as diverse as engineering, risk reduction, management, and urban studies. To find the upside of emergencies, we first looked at the economic effects of a tidy little crisis, a two-day strike that partially disrupted service of the London Underground in 2014.

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The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

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V-2 rockets it used to rain destruction on London. Four hundred experts sifted through billions of pages of documents and shipped 3.5 Universal Images Group/Getty Images. Amplistat , CGS Laboratories’ Increductor , Westinghouse’s Cypak (cybernetic package), and Librascope ’s Unidec (universal decision element).

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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Bob Taylor, then at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) , got interested in connecting computers, in part to save the organization money by getting the expensive computers it funded at universities and research organizations to share their resources over a packet-switched network. 1962 and Ph.D.

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Current climate policies destined for ‘imminent failure’

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With the G8 set to meet in Italy this week, a report outlining a strategy to avert an otherwise imminent failure in climate policy is being published by the London School of Economics (LSE) and Political Science’s Mackinder Programme and the Institute for Science, Innovation & Society at the University of Oxford today.

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