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More than 300 customers have ordered 10,000 Ford E-Transit electric vans

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Customers range from one-person van operations to municipalities including the City of Orlando to some of the nation’s largest service providers and retailers such as Walmart, which alone ordered more than 1,100 vans. The high-roof, extended wheelbase configuration, referred to as the “jumbo” model, is the most popular.

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These Graphene Tattoos Are Actually Biosensors

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Their epidermal electronics embed state-of-the-art silicon chips, sensors, light-emitting diodes, antennas, and transducers into thin epidermal patches, which are designed to monitor a variety of health factors. A third tattoo is placed elsewhere and used as a reference point. In our GETs for sweat, we use the graphene as a transistor.

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FCA US LLC to pay ~$300M in criminal penalties over diesel emissions test cheating

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FCA US designed a specific marketing campaign to market these vehicles to US customers as “clean EcoDiesel” vehicles with best-in-class fuel efficiency. FCA US referred to the manner in which it manipulated one method of emissions control as “cycle detection” and “cycle beating.”

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GM invests $300M in Momenta to deliver next-generation self-driving technologies in China

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Momenta is committed to developing breakthrough artificial intelligence solutions to push beyond the frontier of possibilities today and significantly improve personal mobility experiences. —Julian Blissett, executive vice president of General Motors and president of GM China. —Xudong Cao, CEO of Momenta.

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How Smart Semiconductor Technology Will Improve Personal Health

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We support a health-conscious lifestyle by enabling smart devices that can help improve well-being and stay healthy longer by making them reliable, convenient, personalized — and secure. References: 1) United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022): World Population Prospects 2022: Summary of Results.

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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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Discussions at chip design conferences rarely get heated. But a year ago at the International Symposium on Physical Design , things got out of hand. The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms. Wash, rinse, repeat.

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EcoNav project developing user tools to support more ecologically responsible travel behavior and decisions

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EcoNav aims to provide travelers with personalized mobile and web tools that allow, help and persuade them to behave in an more ecologically responsible manner with regard to their traveling behavior and decisions. Reference: 288466. The ICCS is expert on user modeling, personalization and adaptive interaction development.

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