Intelligent grid inspectors Chinese power utilities are deploying a range of robotic systems, including snake robots, robot dogs, drones, and surveillance cameras, to monitor electricity infrastructure and maintain reliable power supplies during the national college entrance exams.
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Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
11 June 2026
States have since haltingly rolled out standards for history education, but after 30 years of reform, students’ performance on history exams has slightly declined—just 14 percent are rated proficient.
The two partnered for hypersonic missile tests from the pad in the last two years, but the pad has also hosted commercial launch providers, including a pair of Astra Space launches, under a lease agreement with Space Florida, the state’s aerospace finance and development authority.
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Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 June 2026
Yet some 20 states — including New York — used English-literacy tests to suppress minority votes, and had for decades.
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Robert Polner,
New York Daily News,
13 June 2026
If audits and examinations into the president's taxes were thrown out under the settlement, an untold figure could be wiped from his bill to the federal tax collector.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
3 June 2026
The team believes that the technology could become highly valuable in reactor research, post-irradiation examinations, and nuclear forensics investigations that involve shielded and hazardous materials.
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Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
28 May 2026
The science payload to be landed there includes seismometers, a drill to allow emplacement of heat flow and electrical conductivity probes, and instruments to study the magnetic field and surface weathering.
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Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 June 2026
Some of these probes may already have been pulled down, considering the long timeline of Mars exploration.
For example, Google’s IT Support certificate requires five courses with between 110 and 140 hours of work, is graded through quizzes, includes hands-on activities, requires a capstone, and requires a final exam score of over of 80 percent.
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Bryan Penprase,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
In history, quizzes, tests and writing assignments are on the computer.
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