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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

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The magazine was successful in its aim, but it also demonstrated that it takes a very determined driver and an elaborate set of procedures to bypass Tesla’s driver-monitoring systems. . The magazine’s team seemed to have buckled in the driver’s seatbelt without a person sitting in the seat.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. Begun, who was likely something of a competitor to Pfleumer: Also a German, he had moved to the United States and developed a steel-based magnetic tape.

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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

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She developed the geeRemit app to let people in the United States send money to people in sub-Saharan Africa. magazine included her on its 2020 Top 100 Female Founders list. During her trips back to the United States she sometimes transmitted money to Nairobi to pay bills, but the process wasn’t easy. “I

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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

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She was inspired by her parents, who worked in biology, and by her reading of physics journals and engineering and science magazines. I was amazed at the safety precautions the company takes, especially for the employees’ personal safety,” she says. Ansari entered the field of power engineering during her final semester as a Ph.D.

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Why L. Ron Hubbard Patented His E-Meter

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From 1934 to 1940, he regularly penned 70,000 to 100,000 words per month of pulp fiction under 15 different pseudonyms published in various magazines. The E-meter as a recruitment tool As Scientology spread outside the United States, attacks on the E-meter and the church continued.

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Technology Review: First Plug-in Hybrid to Be Sold in the United States

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Credit: Kevin Bullis The first plug-in hybrid to be sold in the United States will likely be the Fisker Karma, which is due out in November. Price: $87,000. Fisker Automotive , which unveiled the concept version of the Karma in January, recently raised $87 million to help put it into production.

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Stephen Welby: A Man on a Mission

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IEEE is in an interesting spot relative to public policy in the United States, Europe, and everywhere because we talk to the concerns of technologists, and about technology and how it impacts regulations and legislation,” he says. We’re not arguing for a particular stakeholder; we’re arguing for investments in advancing technology.

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