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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs , a tireless tech visionary, an extraordinary innovator, and the cofounder of Apple. Jobs also redefined what a high-tech corporate campus should look like, according to a 2011. On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next." Pixar Animation Studios.

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Airless tires look like the future for robotaxis, EVs, and more

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Michelin Uptis airless tire on French postal van Tests in delivery fleets, talks with Tesla But more tests continue on this tech, which the company describes as being at the prototype stage. They’re fitting about 50 vehicles in each of those fleets with Uptis tires, Roget explained, and the idea will be to capture as much data as possible.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible. it meant you must have a good idea and you should make the most of it, as quickly as possible.”—Henn Clones,” Tan told the Straits Times in 2005, “in a sense, are marvelous.

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This IEEE Service-Learning Program Is More Popular Than Ever

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In 2009 the EPICS program was brought to IEEE by Moshe Kam , an IEEE Fellow and the 2005–2007 vice president of IEEE Educational Activities ; Senior Member Kapil Dandekar ; and Fellow Saurabh Sinha. They employed a 3D printer to make signs in braille, they built a wheelchair, and they automated the school’s doors to improve access.

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The Automotive Research Center at the University of Michigan’s Annual Program Review: The Driving Force Behind Autonomous Vehicles

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The event’s atmosphere is a dynamic balance between a network of friendships and a professional exchange of information and ideas. While many people are understandably wary of the idea of submitting their own control (especially that of a moving vehicle) to a robot, would their concerns be quelled if these robots could prevent accidents?

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Creating Domestic Robots That Really Help

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Chris has been at iRobot since 2005, and he spent several years as a senior investigator at iRobot research working on some of iRobot’s more unusual and experimental projects. Ackerman: Yeah, I thought that was a fantastic idea when I first saw it at CES , and I’m so glad that you’ve been able to continue working on it.

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Keeping Moore’s Law Going is Getting Complicated

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How We Got Here In a sense, the semiconductor industry was spoiled by the decades prior to about 2005, says Julien Ryckaert , R&D vice president at Imec. That tech, called high-numerical aperture EUV, is under construction at ASML now, and Imec is next in line for delivery. See “ 3 Ways 3D Chip Tech is Upending Computing ”.]

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