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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif., as a software engineer.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out. The invention was used by the U.S. military during the war, and the company revisited the idea immediately after.

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City of LA, Xerox introduce multi-modal transportation app for commuters

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The app aggregates and calculates the time, cost, carbon footprint, and health benefits from walking, biking, driving your own car, parking, taking public transit, as well as the emerging private transportation options—such as Lyft, Zipcar, FlitWays and Uber—giving users a variety of ways to reach their destination.