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Baltimore Gas and Electric Company to Launch Plug-in Trial; GridPoints Smart Charging Software to Manage Grid Impacts

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Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), a subsidiary of Constellation Energy, has launched a multiyear plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) demonstration project using GridPoint’s smart charging software ( earlier post ). BGE will also evaluate the impact a PHEV fleet has on the company’s carbon footprint.

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Lyft and GM launch “Express Drive” short-term rental program in Chicago

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The program will make cars available to Lyft drivers at affordable rates with insurance and maintenance included. Baltimore and others. In Chicago, Express Drive will provide access to Chevrolet Equinox crossovers equipped with OnStar, additional connectivity features as well as ample cargo space and flexible seating for up to five.

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ARPA-E to award $14.5M to 5 projects to reduce energy use for transportation

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To construct the system model, project teams will use data that can be measured and obtained from currently available sources. To develop the software, project teams will use currently available data to simulate the transportation network of a US urban region and quantify how much energy is used in various transportation patterns.

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Berkeley Lab researchers develop Bchain protocol to make blockchain more robust

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A blockchain is essentially a fault-tolerant, decentralized collection of records, or blocks, that are connected and secured by cryptography. The Iroha team details the BChain connection in its development documents. Both are now faculty members at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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RF Safety Lab Ensures Wireless Gadgets Meet Safety Standards

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Not everyone knows SAR levels are publicly available on the FCC website, Liu says. After graduating with a bachelors degree in biomedical and electrical engineering in 2000 from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore, he joined PCTest Engineering Laboratory , in Columbia, Md. where he explained how to achieve FCC compliance.

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How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records

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The group of well-dressed young men who gathered on the outskirts of Baltimore on the night of 5 January 2021 hardly looked like extremists. Connecting that Gmail account to a phone number and then to its owner, Paul Lovley of Halethorpe, Md., on 6 January, entered New Jersey at 7:54, and proceeded southbound through Baltimore at 9:15.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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And by mid-1971, program director Lawrence Roberts of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was becoming impatient with the slow pace at which ARPA-funded researchers were getting connected. As one press account put it, “On the show floor, there are plenty of demonstrations but few available products.” All the U.S.

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