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BMW opens new Shanghai R&D center; focus on human-machine interaction and hardware-software integration

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Within BMW Group’s global R&D network, China is the only country outside Germany with full-process R&D capabilities. In China, BA TechWorks in Nanjing will expand its software team to 500 associates by the end of 2023, with software development capabilities for full stack development of Intelligent Connected Vehicles.

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Ford, Uber and Lyft to share data through SharedStreets platform

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This collaborative effort to build 21 st -century streets was announced by Jim Hackett, CEO of Ford Motor Company, Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber, and John Zimmer, Co-founder and President of Lyft at the second annual Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York City. Uber will include this speed in an update of its open-source Kepler.gl

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A Non-Engineer’s Journey to IEEE Leadership

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Her husband is a computer science professor at the University of Technology, Jamaica , in Kingston. Brown was also a member of the subcommittee of the global Women in Engineering committee; she served as membership coordinator and ran several successful senior member campaigns, elevating women on the committee and across IEEE.

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SpaceX and Dish’s Super-Shady War for the World

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“Rights to use frequencies have not been sharply defined, and the overlapping permits generate controversy,” says Thomas Hazlett, a Clemson University economist who writes about bandwidth battles (and once served as FCC chief economist). rtay, who was writing about spectrum sharing in 2002. Which means pretty much everywhere.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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From researcher to entrepreneur Moore received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1950 from the University of California, Berkeley. also in chemistry, in 1954 from Caltech , he began his career as a researcher in the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. In 2002 Moore received a U.S.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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New Report Concludes That Real Costs of Adapting to Climate Change Will Likely Be At Least 2-3X Greater Than Current Estimates

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Parry co-chaired the IPCC working group on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation between 2002 and 2008. Parry and colleagues warn that this underestimate of the cost of adaptation threatens to weaken the outcome of UNFCCC negotiations, which are due to culminate in Copenhagen in December with a global deal aimed at tackling climate change.