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Hydrogen South Africa (HySA) Systems, The National Aerospace Centre, and Airbus to research use of fuel cells for commercial airliners

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Airbus and South Africa’s National Aerospace Centre will jointly fund research by Hydrogen South Africa (HySA) into the application of fuel cells on airliners. The initial three-year project is being undertaken by HySA Systems Competence Centre at its University of the Western Cape research facility.

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Mercedes-Benz running automated test drive in Shanghai; infrastructure peculiarities

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million kilometers in Europe, the US, China, Australia and South Africa, and more than 1.2 An important part of the activities of R&D China is to capture and process the local traffic conditions and practices for the development of automated driving functions. China is the largest automobile market in the world.

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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The patent success in South Africa was thanks to Thaler’s attorney, Ryan Abbott. Abbott, a physician as well as a lawyer, is a professor of law and health sciences at the University of Surrey’s School of Law. If a lawsuit is filed challenging a patent, the listed inventor could be deposed as part of the proceedings.

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TOAR shows present-day global ozone distribution and trends relevant to health; public database

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Even so, during 2010-2014, people in parts of California, Arizona, Colorado, Texas, the Midwest and the Middle Atlantic still experienced more than 15 days a year in which ozone levels exceeded the US health-based air quality standard of 70 parts per billion (ppb) averaged over eight hours. Source: University of Leicester.

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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

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For many of us, the Internet is part of daily life. Last year the IEEE Future Networks initiative ran the inaugural IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge to seek out innovative projects and ideas aimed at increasing connectivity. But that’s not the case for more than 3.5 The submission portal for this year is due to open soon.

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Anglo American Platinum invests in Hydrogenious Technologies; liquid organic hydrogen carrier technology for H2 storage

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South Africa-based Anglo American Platinum , the world’s leading primary producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), has invested in the first close of the Series A financing round of Hydrogenious Technologies, a company developing liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) hydrogen storage technology. Click to enlarge. Resources.

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Global billionaires unite in “Breakthrough energy coalition” to support development of zero-carbon energy

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This collective failure can be addressed, in part, by a dramatically scaled-up public research pipeline, linked to a different kind of private investor with a long term commitment to new technologies who is willing to put truly patient flexible risk capital to work. University of California, Office of the Chief Investment Officer, US.

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