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Amazon leans on Rivian to deliver packages in 100 U.S. cities for the Holidays

Teslarati

.’ After launching a pilot program this past Summer in a dozen cities, including Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, Rivian and Amazon have expanded their fleet of EDVs to over 1,000 units present in more than 100 cities across the United States.

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Using Industrial Automation to Monitor Vertical Farms

Cars That Think

By supplying plants with the precise amount of water, nutrients, and light, indoor farming creates an ideal environment for their growth. Klein I was surprised to see that Nokia Bell Labs was one of the presenters at the summit. The systems reduce water consumption and minimize the need for pesticides and herbicides.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

Our first two ride & drives, in 2014 and 2015, were the largest NDEW events held in the area west of the Mississippi, south of St. Louis, and north of Florida. Folks here already know what’s going on with the environment and how EVs fit into the big picture.” “We started off with a bang,” recalled Erb.

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Joule says it has improved the photosynthetic efficiency of its engineered cyanobacteria by nearly 100%

Green Car Congress

At the 2014 Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, Joule reported that its has improved the overall photosynthetic efficiency of its engineered cyanobacteria by nearly 100%, and estimates a maximum 14% energy conversion efficiency in its biomass-to-fuels process.

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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

Cars That Think

These interviews present a wonderful opportunity to learn more about Sutherland’s life in computing, in his own words. Critically for Sutherland, he supported a new effort by Clark, who by then had moved from MIT to Washington University, in St. Some of these figures discussed this remarkable environment in a 1994 meeting.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. And in the Xerox environment in ’76, all of a sudden you could create things and make lots of them.”

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