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New RNP Flight Path Designed by GE Aviation Debuts at Bradley International

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American Airlines Flight 1916 on Thursday became the first US flight to use a publicly available, commercially designed instrument flight path in its touchdown at Bradley International Airport. In Canada, China, Australia, New Zealand, Peru and now, the United States, GE’s RNP procedures are in regular daily use. Earlier post.).

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GM Creates New South America Regional Organization

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GM South America includes GM’s existing sales and manufacturing operations in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela as well as sales activities in those countries and Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. The GM International Operations team is doing a great job expanding our global presence.

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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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Tesla taps new glass supplier for Plaid Model S

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Many months ago, Teslarati stumbled across a list of Tesla’s suppliers through international connections. AGP is a Peru-based company that specializes in all types of automotive glass, but what they’ve done for Tesla is especially interesting. 208 , beating out the Lucid Air’s impressive.21 21 coefficient.

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Ricardo study predicts that BRIC automotive markets will be eclipsed by the “Rising-15”

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Ricardo’s Rising-15 automotive markets include: Argentina; Egypt; Indonesia; Iran; Malaysia; Mexico; Morocco; Nigeria; Peru; the Philippines; South Africa; Thailand; Turkey; Ukraine; and Vietnam. Nissan introducing new Datsun in Indonesia.

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Weaponized Robots Letter Calls for Policy, Tech Fixes

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We’re not taking issue with weapons systems that are already governed by an international legal framework. Schulman: This is part of the discussion we’ve been having in the industry and with other stakeholders. I think that makes it distinct from other efforts that have been going on in a broader robotics context for a number of years.

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Maersk and IBM launch TradeLens blockchain shipping solution; 154+ million shipping events already captured on platform

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IBM and Maersk also announced that as part of the TradeLens early adopter program, 94 organizations are actively involved or have agreed to participate on the TradeLens platform built on open standards. Pacific International Lines (PIL) have joined Maersk Line and Hamburg Süd as global container carriers participating in the solution.