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Toyota Topped G.M. in U.S. Car Sales in 2021
After struggling to produce cars because of a global computer chip shortage, automakers are trying to move quickly to making electric vehicles. Source
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Toyota Outlines Electric Vehicle Expansion Plan
The company’s Lexus brand will only sell electric cars by 2030 in China, Europe and the United States. Source
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Masayuki Uemura, 78, Dies; Designed the First Nintendo Console
He developed the Nintendo Entertainment System in the 1980s, which laid the foundation for today’s enormous video game console market and franchises like Super Mario Brothers. Source
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Humans Take a Step Closer to ‘Flying Cars’
In the 1880s, the first automobile was developed and about two decades later, the Wright brothers in North Carolina invented the first successful airplane. Today, the world is closer to combining those two concepts as […]
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You Won’t Find These Masks at 7-Eleven
TOKYO — Rieko Kawanishi is the first to admit that the pearl-laden mask she designed is not the most effective defense against the coronavirus. “It’s full of holes,” she said with a laugh. But her […]
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The Star of This $70 Million Sci-Fi Film Is a Robot
Meet Erica, an android believed to be Hollywood’s first fully autonomous artificially intelligent actor. Can she overcome the uncanny valley? Source
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How the United Arab Emirates Set Its Sights on Mars
The Hope orbiter will make contributions to research on the red planet, but the Emirati government really hopes it will inspire future scientists. Source