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Battista Cinquantacinque: A Modern Take on a 1950s Icon

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Photo credit: Automobili Pininfarina The Automobili Pininfarina Battista Cinquantacinque is a hyper GT that pays homage to the 1955 Lancia Florida, a vehicle designed by Battista 'Pinin' Farina. The Lancia Florida is revered for its innovative design and was the daily vehicle of choice for Farina, the founder of Carrozzeria Pininfarina.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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Owners of aging Teslas, this new bespoke warranty plan is for you

Baua Electric

For example, in Florida, an AmberCare customer can take their vehicle to one of the 14 Tesla Service Centers, a Tesla Service Center in a neighboring state, or to Tesla and EV repair specialist Electrified Garage in Ocala, Florida. Amber also announced the close of its $3.18 Get started here. –

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SpaceX Starlink lands Maersk in new deal for Ocean fleet

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Crew members will also be able to hold video calls for professional and personal reasons and will have access to more stable and higher-quality connections, allowing for high-definition video. SpaceX launched 21 additional Starlink satellites from the Vandenburg Space Force Base at 3:23 A.M. EDT on Monday morning. I’d love to hear from you!

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New ORNL tool to assess global freshwater stress suggests that population growth could be a bigger factor in water availability than increasing temperatures

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Our work establishes a new method to couple geographic information system data with global climate outputs and statistical analysis. Our tool provides a simple method to integrate disparate climate and population data sources and develop preliminary per capita water availability projections at a global scale. 2012.01.019.

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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

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Winners of the 2021 Global Cooling Prize—both heat pumps—reduce cooling’s climate impact by as much as 80 percent. grid, that plant used a CO 2 -emitting source, then the local problem may be solved, but only at the expense of a more global threat. If, like 60 percent of the U.S. Still, in the U.S.,

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Ford investing US$375M for R&D in Canada; doubling connectivity team, new research and engineering center

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Additional facilities will be located in Waterloo and Oakville, Ontario, as well as Cary, North Carolina and Sunrise, Florida. This will be Ford’s first center focused on connectivity research and advanced technology in Canada, and it will serve global connectivity needs for Ford. In the past six months, Ford has announced C$1.2

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