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Personal: Range Anxiety Be Damned!

Clean Fleet Report

She lived in the residential area around Stanford University and Ridge wasn’t that far away. When I put in the location I was going to for the panel hand-off (the south shore of Lake San Antonio), the nav system recommended a 10-minute charge at the north end of King City at an AM/PM gas station. It was the elevation.

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UTSA researchers review security risks for e-scooters and riders

Green Car Congress

Researchers at the University of Texas San Antonio have published a review of the security and privacy risks posed by e-scooters and their related software services and applications. Those who sign up to use e-scooters also offer up a great deal of personal and sensitive data beyond just billing information.

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Survey Shows Overwhelming Interest in a Four-Day Workweek

Cars That Think

A work/life balance Amanda Barbosa is a robotics engineering student at Federal University of ABC, in Brazil. Barbosa is a robotics engineering student at Federal University of ABC , in Brazil, who is working full time in Santos for Leroy Merlin , a household goods company. It will minimize the time needed to be in-person at work.”

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Video Friday: Monocycle Robot With Legs

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Robodies are multipliers for care staff, allowing them to work together with local helpers to provide protection and assistance around the clock while maintaining personal contact with people in the community. CERN ] Congrats to Starship, the OG robotic delivery service, on their $90m raise.

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Basic transportation, EV style

Electric Auto Association

Members of the new University of Texas San Antonio EAA chapter ready for go-kart competition. Two years later, the family moved to San Antonio to open a second Johnny Rockets. There, Javier enrolled at the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) as a freshman committed to earning a mechanical engineering degree.

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NSF awards $20 million to two new testbeds to support cloud computing applications and experiments

Green Car Congress

Cloud computing refers to the practice of using a network of remote servers to store, manage and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. —Kate Keahey, a scientist at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and principal investigator for Chameleon.

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The Legacy of the Datapoint 2200 Microcomputer

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As the history committee chair of the IEEE Lone Star Section , in San Antonio, Texas, I am responsible for documenting, preserving, and raising the visibility of technologies developed in the local area. One such technology is the Datapoint 2200, a programmable terminal that laid the foundation for the personal computer revolution.