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Researchers map CO2 emissions for entire Los Angeles Megacity to help improve environmental policymaking

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The Los Angeles megacity—the third-largest metropolitan area in the world—occupies 4,850 square miles and houses more than 18.5 However, Gurney expects the Los Angeles mapping to have the most significant implications, especially considering the sheer size and scope of the area. million people.

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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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Honda unveils Fit EV concept and plug-in hybrid electric vehicle platform at Los Angeles Auto Show

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President and CEO Takanobu Ito unveiled the Fit EV Concept electric vehicle and the platform for a mid-size plug-in hybrid electric vehicle at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The Fit EV will come equipped with a standard Honda Satellite Linked Navigation System that includes a public charging-station locator capability.

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Study: more stringent O3 and PM2.5 air pollution standards could save thousands of lives, greatly improve public health

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In “Estimated Excess Morbidity and Mortality Caused by Air Pollution above ATS Recommended Standards, 2011-2013,” published online in the August edition of Annals of the American Thoracic Society , researchers report on the annual health benefits of meeting more protective standards recommended by the ATS for O 3 and PM 2.5.

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Study: consumer products overtake transportation as largest source of VOCs air pollution in cities

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Recent research suggests that adverse human health effects occur below current US standards for both PM 2.5 Here, we focus on volatile chemical products (VCPs), including pesticides, coatings, printing inks, adhesives, cleaning agents, and personal care products. Contributors to ambient air pollution in Los Angeles. (A

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. The diagram helped me to see where protocols would need to be standardized.” But when he entered Stanford University later that year, he envisioned a career in mathematics, not computer science.

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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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. He also is an adjunct assistant professor at the Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and he wrote The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law.