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How to Throw a Greek Summer Party

Baua Electric

When guests arrived at the Mouki Mou store in Athens at 6 p.m. On this particular evening, the brand in focus was Dosa, founded by the American-based Korean designer Christina Kim , 67, in 1983. on the last weekend in May, they grabbed cool glasses of Greek rosé before retreating into the concrete-clad boutique.

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Tesla patent outlines system to actively monitor improper seatbelt use

Teslarati

One such example was demonstrated by Consumer Reports recently when the magazine decided to show exactly how drivers could trick Tesla’s Autopilot driver-monitoring systems. . Teslas are already safe to begin with, thanks to their all-electric design that gives them a low center of gravity and generous crumple zones.

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Audi sets new lap record for diesels on Sachsenring; electric compressor overcomes turbo lag, enhances sprint performance

Green Car Congress

The concept, also equipped with the electric compressor, introduced a 48V subsystem to drive the electric compressor; energy required to drive the electric compressor is largely generated by recuperation during coasting phases and stored in its own compact Li-ion battery.) Since then, the car was further developed for racetrack duty.

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SpaceX’s first Starlink V2 satellites spotted at Starbase

Teslarati

On Monday, SpaceX was spotted loading some of the first Starlink V2 satellite prototypes into a custom mechanism designed to refill Starship’s magazine-like payload bay. Due to the designs SpaceX has settled on for both Starlink V2.0 Starlink satellites. Video of the operation on the next WAI+, so check it out.

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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

Cars That Think

Ernest Hamlin Baker/TIME Celebrated as the “general of physics” on the cover of Time magazine in 1944, Bush served as the first research chief of the newly created Department of Defense in 1947. In the 1920s, he cofounded Raytheon , and the company competed with behemoth RCA in the design and manufacture of vacuum tubes.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

Cars That Think

Audio Magazine/Internet Archive /Scotch As Smithsonian Magazine notes , the formulation he developed, combining cabinetmaker’s glue with glycerin, proved to be just the right level of easy-to-remove adhesive that it became an out-and-out phenomenon. I bought them from a junk store, and maybe paid $2 for them. inch floppy.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

Cars That Think

This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.” The author spoke with many members of the design team in the months following the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh, however, Steve Jobs did not grant an interview for this article. It appeared in the December 1984 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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