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In 1926, TV Was Mechanical

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Scottish inventor John Logie Baird had a lot of ingenious ideas, not all of which caught on. Baird’s starting point was an idea for an “electric telescope,” patented in 1885 by German engineer Paul Nipkow. In 2017, the IEEE chose to mark the latter and not the former with a Milestone.) standard for color TV broadcasting.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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Corporate Cash The idea of private digital currencies goes back to at least 1994, when the late Edward de Bono wrote of the “IBM dollar.” who said to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg: “I think you of all people can appreciate using a person’s past behavior in decisions about future behavior. dollar—and hence to the U.S.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , which regulates interstate transmission of electricity, is on board with the idea. Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020.

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