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What Is Going on at Machu Picchu?

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Protesters agreed to a 24-hour “truce” on Tuesday to take part in talks with government officials. Peru has been trying to encourage tourists to visit other ancient sites in part to prevent overcrowding, which UNESCO has warned could damage parts of its structure. million visitors last year, below prepandemic levels of 4.6

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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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The result of a 7-year collaboration, the study was able to show that in large parts of the world, recent urban growth has increasingly resulted in inflexible and disconnected street networks. Thus, today’s choices on the connectivity of streets may restrict future resilience and lock in pathways of energy use and CO 2.

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Video Friday: Modular Polygons

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ABB Robotics and Junglekeepers, a nonprofit dedicated to replanting the Amazon rainforest in Peru, have joined forces to work on a special pilot program. My favorite part of this video is the poor guy in the back, desperately covering his ears. Total cost is about $1,300 AUD. The full bill of materials can be found on GitHub.

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JATO: global vehicle sales fall by 39% in March; electrified vehicles up to 17.4% new registration market share in Europe

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The industry is being impacted largely by the uncertainty for the future, and this issue started to arise even before the pandemic took hold. As COVID-19 didn’t spread to the USA as early as these markets, quarantine only came into force in specific parts of the country during March.

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Tesla taps new glass supplier for Plaid Model S

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Each week I go ‘Beyond the News’ and handcraft a special edition that includes my thoughts on the biggest stories, why it matters, and how it could impact the future. AGP is a Peru-based company that specializes in all types of automotive glass, but what they’ve done for Tesla is especially interesting. 21 coefficient.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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Akhtar and Nguyen flew to Quito, Ecuador, to test their product on Juan Suquillo, who lost his left hand during a 1979 border war between Ecuador and Peru. He reported that he felt as though a part of him had come back thanks to the prosthesis. Everything that we do has the patient in mind.".

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Weaponized Robots Letter Calls for Policy, Tech Fixes

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We are convinced that the benefits for humanity of these technologies strongly outweigh the risk of misuse, and we are excited about a bright future in which humans and robots work side by side to tackle some of the world’s challenges. Schulman: This is part of the discussion we’ve been having in the industry and with other stakeholders.

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