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APRIL 15, 2023

Secret Service claims to be able to identify an unknown person in a voice-only lineup, comparing a recording of an unknown voice with a recording of a known speaker, as a reference. Police secretly recorded him and then invited Lawrence Kersta, an engineer who worked at Bell Labs, to compare the two tapes. A 2020 U.S.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2022

liter V8 engine for automobiles that is fueled entirely by hydrogen. In Japan, Toyota and other automotive-related companies are about to begin a collaborative effort to expand the range of fuel options for internal combustion engines. November 2021 hydrogen engine prototype. —Yamaha Motor president Yoshihiro Hidaka.

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MARCH 28, 2019

The BMW Group has launched its High Performance D3 IT platform—a key milestone on the BMW Group’s roadmap to highly and fully automated driving. The BMW Group has been applying the Data-Driven Development approach for a couple of years. The net useable data rate is approx. D3 Platform storage capacity of more than 230 PB.

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MAY 27, 2022

Babbage set to work on the concept for a Difference Engine, a machine that would use a clockwork mechanism to solve polynomial equations. That is, he wanted to build a full-scale Difference Engine. His magnificent Difference Engine proved far more difficult to build than his note suggested. Difference Engine No.

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Matching owners with shoppers has gone so far as in-person meet-ups, especially when local dealerships do not have the particular vehicle in stock. “If Far-flung and growing… Before the pandemic, the NBEAA met in person at Thunderstruck Motors , an EV parts and conversion shop in Santa Rosa with a decades-long association with the chapter.

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APRIL 21, 2022

Lucid Group ( NASDAQ: LCID ) announced today that it would report earnings for the first quarter of 2022 on May 5 at 2:30 PM PT or 5:30 PM ET. Citing supply constraints and a “continued focus on quality,” Lucid felt it was appropriate to decrease its annual production targets to increase the build quality of its initial vehicles.

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MARCH 28, 2013

Ford launched a $50,000 challenge for software developers to write innovative apps to help consumers better understand and improve their personal fuel efficiency. Participants will have access to Ford’s OpenXC connectivity research platform as a sandbox to create and test their ideas for the Personalized Fuel Efficiency Apps Challenge.

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MAY 3, 2022

IEEE Women in Engineering , formed 25 years ago, now has more than 35,000 members and 1,000 affinity groups worldwide. It also works to inspire girls to pursue a career in engineering. To mark its 25th anniversary, the group is planning competitions, panels, seminars, and other events this year.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Ford celebrated the production start of the all-new F-150 at the Ford Rouge Center and confirmed construction of the new Rouge Electric Vehicle Center where it will build the all-electric F-150 by mid-2022. Rendering of the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center.

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JULY 2, 2023

In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. Mr. Raskin’s proposal did not impress anyone at Apple Computer enough to bring much money from the board of directors or much respect from Apple engineers.

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JULY 2, 2022

The chip, he predicted, would reach beyond the utilitarian line of microprocessors into equipment for the high-level engineering and scientific research communities. “We Yu, vice president and general manager of the company’s Component Technology and Development Group. Sun Micro Systems Inc., and Motorola Inc.—were were up to.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

IBM and BMW Group researchers are collaborating to explore the role of Watson cognitive computing in personalizing the driving experience and creating more intuitive driver support systems for cars of the future. A team of BMW Group engineers will work alongside IBM’s own team of technologists, developers and consultants.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

has entered into a MOU with Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) supporting a project to develop a breakthrough electric vehicle. Highlights of the proposed collaboration, codenamed “Project PEAR” (Personal Electric Automotive Revolution): Fisker and Foxconn to jointly develop a breakthrough new segment vehicle. Fisker Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Since its launch in April 2021 , the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance has convened a diverse set of experts to explore three areas in which fundamental research could have the most impact: climate change; the nexus of biology and engineering; and securing critical infrastructure against hackers.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

Electra will complete the build-out of a green-iron refining pilot plant in 2023 at its headquarters in Boulder, CO, and plans to have a commercial-scale demonstration plant qualified by the second half of this decade. Electra plans to forge additional partnerships across the entire steel value chain.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Tech companies have been caught up in a race to build the biggest large language models (LLMs). Because SLMs don’t consume nearly as much energy as LLMs, they can also run locally on devices like smartphones and laptops (instead of in the cloud) to preserve data privacy and personalize them to each person. trillion parameters.

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JANUARY 4, 2018

The Volkswagen Group and self-driving technology startup Aurora Innovation, founded by technology veterans from Google, Tesla and Uber, announced a strategic collaboration ahead of the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. —Volkswagen Group Chief Digital Officer Johann Jungwirth.

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APRIL 29, 2024

The unveiling occurred at the Volkswagen Group Media Night and is set for a public debut at Auto China Beijing 2024. Photo credit: Lamborghini Technical Enhancements and Environmental Considerations The Urus SE is equipped with an 800 CV hybrid powertrain, combining a re-engineered twin-turbo 4.0 V8 engine and an electric motor.

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APRIL 2, 2022

In January 1981, a handful of semiconductor engineers at MOS Technology in West Chester, Pa., By using in-house integrated-circuit-fabrication facilities for prototyping, the engineers had cut the design time for each chip to less than nine months, and they had designed and built five prototype computers for the show in less than five weeks.

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JUNE 4, 2022

Networks that link personal computers in offices. Since projects were not assigned from above, the researchers formed their own groups; support for a project depended on how many people its instigator could get to work on it. The group thought it should have a computer of its own. Colorful weather maps on TV news programs.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

At its Dingolfing plant, the BMW Group is implementing a modular production system for chassis components to ensure even more flexibility in the production of different vehicle variants—whether all-electric, hybrid or classic combustion engine, whether all-wheel drive or rear-wheel drive. In the component plant 02.10

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It recently posted construction jobs for team leads, including architecture, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineers. Lead in the execution of construction administration responsibilities, as well as lead in the review and execution of design documents that meet building code.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

—Jim Buczkowski, Executive Director, Research and Advanced Engineering. Ford is a founding member of the Vulnerable Road User Safety Consortium (VRUSC), a consortia program of SAE Industries Technology Consortia Programs (SAE ITC), an affiliate of SAE Group. gigahertz band to communicate with other similarly equipped devices.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

As a fully electric version of the best-selling XC40 SUV, the first Volvo to win the prestigious European Car of the Year award, the XC40 Recharge P8 is based on the Compact Modular Architecture (CMA), an advanced vehicle platform co-developed within the Geely Group.

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MARCH 20, 2023

These speculations aside, the idea that a person could simply die in plain view and without friends or family was shocking. This was a man with an athletic build , wearing a nice suit, and showing no signs of having suffered violence. In 2009, I established a working group at the university’s Center for Biomedical Engineering.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

The company also said that it plans to build 20 Power Swap Stations (PSS) in Europe this year. By 2025, NIO aims to build 1,000 PSS outside of China, most of which will be in Europe. NIO Subscription is designed to offer maximum flexibility and personalization to encourage EV use. In 2023, this number is expected to reach 120.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The BMW XM is equipped with a plug-in hybrid system comprising a V8 gasoline engine and electric motor that delivers combined fuel consumption of 1.6 – 1.5 Production of the BMW XM will get underway at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg in the USA in December 2022 before it arrives at dealers worldwide in spring 2023.

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JUNE 27, 2017

The all-new 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan—the second-generation of the vehicle—is powered by the latest version of the EA888 four-cylinder engine, the 2.0L This is the only engine/transmission combination available in the Tiguan in the US. This despite the work the Volkswagen Group is doing with 48V systems in Europe.

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OCTOBER 13, 2022

Hyundai Motor Group announced a new global strategy to transform all vehicles to software-defined vehicles (SDVs) by 2025. The initiative, presented during the Group’s Unlock the Software Age global online forum, will give customers the freedom to upgrade the performance and functionality of their vehicles remotely.

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JUNE 11, 2022

Single lens reflex (SLR) A camera viewing system that, by swinging an angled mirror temporarily between lens and film, allows a person looking into the viewfinder to seem to see through the lens, previewing the image that will be captured on film. To Polaroid the approach looked risky, but its engineers were excited by its possibilities.

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OCTOBER 29, 2023

The 10-day camp for students ages 13 to 17 provides an immersive and fun approach to learning about engineering. The teenagers engage in hands-on activities, speak with working engineers, and make field trips to local engineering organizations. This program is an opportunity for exploring the different branches of engineering.”

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JANUARY 6, 2017

Supporting its Cooperative Mobility Ecosystem theme, Honda introduced the Honda NeuV, an electric automated mini-vehicle concept equipped with an artificial intelligence (AI) ”emotion engine” ( earlier post ) and automated personal assistant, creating new possibilities for human interaction and new value for customers.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

The Brayton cycle is named after 19 th century engineer George Brayton, who developed this method of using hot, pressurized fluid to spin a turbine, much like a jet engine. —Rodney Keith, manager for the advanced concepts group working on the Brayton cycle technology.

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MARCH 25, 2024

These include making DNA microarrays for genomics, creating electrical traces for printed circuit boards, and building 3D-printed structures. Future uses could include personalized medicine and development of advanced batteries. Each drop hitting the paper creates a dot, and moving the printhead back and forth builds up an image.

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APRIL 27, 2024

In a desolate corner of the outpost, where the feared Iraqi Republican Guard had once manufactured mustard gas, nerve agents, and other chemical weapons, a group of American soldiers and Marines were solemnly gathered around an open grave, dripping sweat in the 114-degree heat. military base just north of Baghdad.

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MAY 26, 2024

Woebot relies on a rules-based engine that resembles a decision tree of possible conversational paths; ChatGPT uses statistics to determine what its next words should be, given what has come before. These core beliefs strongly influenced both Woebot’s engineering architecture and its product-development process.

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MARCH 1, 2023

But these engineers and programmers largely shared the same point of view. The type of computing they envisioned was thoroughly interactive and personal, comprehensively networked, and completely graphical—with high-resolution screens and high-quality print output. This vision wasn’t entirely new or limited to Xerox PARC.

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