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Volkswagen and Faurecia delivering PPE to New York City Javits Center and area hospitals

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The shipment of 75,000 units is scheduled to arrive this week and be distributed at area hospitals including New York City’s Javits Center, recently transformed by the US Army Corps of Engineers into a temporary hospital staffed by FEMA and Army medical personnel.

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Study finds high-density, low-rise cities such as Paris may be optimal urban form for reducing life cycle GHG emissions

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A study by researchers at CU Boulder and Edinburgh Napier University finds that high-density, low-rise environments such as those found in Paris are the optimal urban form when looking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over their whole life cycle. There is a growing belief that building taller and denser is better.

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AI Tool for COVID Monitoring Offers Solution for Urban Congestion

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. By exploring these different trends, we were trying to better understand if there are new patterns during and after the lockdown.” There are a lot of opportunities to do this at a large scale for extended periods with little to no infrastructure cost.”

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Sensor Networks Help Fight Floods and Noise Pollution

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. A challenge for New York City's efforts to reduce the negative impacts of street-level flooding and noise pollution has been how to measure these issues effectively. At that point, we realized we needed to collect that data ourselves."

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. as a software engineer.

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Video Friday: Baby Clappy

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DLR RMC ] DEEP Robotics has signed a strategic agreement with Huzhou Institute of Zhejiang University for cooperating on further research to seek various possibilities in drones and quadruped. With NSF's support, a team of Stanford University mechanical engineers has found a way to target drug delivery…to better attack that headache.

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NYU review study suggests potential for gauging health risks of air pollution on individual level

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Though other parallel projects may well be in planning elsewhere, we describe this initiative, which is currently being applied in New York City, as a pilot study for the method applied in a very large metropolitan area. —Caplin et al. billion a year.

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