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Tropicana Las Vegas Closing Tuesday to Make Way for a Baseball Stadium

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The famous Tropicana Las Vegas resort, which held the city’s longest-running cabaret and was known for its lavish midcentury décor, will close on Tuesday as it prepares for demolition to make way for a new Major League Baseball stadium. billion baseball stadium to lure the Athletics to a site on the Las Vegas Strip.

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Clean Energy signs deals for more than 20M gallons of renewable natural gas in past 45 days

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announced new and extended contracts for more than 20 million gallons of Redeem renewable natural gas (RNG) to accommodate the continued demand across key business segments for the ultra-low carbon fuel produced from organic waste. Clean Energy Fuels Corp. The station will provide approximately 3.2

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This IEEE Service-Learning Program Is More Popular Than Ever

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Since its founding in 1995 at Purdue University , the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) in IEEE program has been providing nonprofit organizations with technology to improve and deliver services to their community while broadening undergraduate EE students’ hands-on experiences.

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MSU microbial electrolysis cell produces ethanol from glycerol, reduces wastewater in biodiesel production

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Syntrophic [mutual dependency of two organisms for nutritional requirements] cooperation stimulated glycerol consumption, ethanol production, and the conversion of fermentation byproducts into cathodic H 2 in the MEC. They feast like they’re at a Las Vegas buffet. sulfurreducens.

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The Tesla Autopilot Excuse: How EV ignorance created the perfect storm for a misinformation nightmare

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Soon, even organizations such as Consumer Reports joined the fray, graciously demonstrating that Autopilot could indeed be “fooled” into operating without a human in the driver’s seat. Granted, such strategies may not be as effective in the United States, but something has to be done.

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Building a Zero Trust Security Model for Autonomous Systems

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Orchestration engines help organize the flow of work across multiple bots. 9 ASPIRE is tasked with hosting grand challenge competitions loosely organized like the US DARPA’s challenge that spearheaded research on autonomous vehicles. A drone is attempting to transport an organ between hospitals. next grand challenge project.

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The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

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That order was followed over the next couple of years by the DoD’s awarding of well over US $100 million in grants, investments, and initiatives aimed at shoring up U.S. And-- You mentioned MP Materials, based in Las Vegas, and they have just started operating a large mine with a processing facility right nearby in Southeastern California.

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