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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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For a deeper dive into Pong ’s design, see Hugo Holden’s article, “ Atari Pong E Circuit Analysis & Lawn Tennis: Building a Digital Video Game with 74 Series TTL IC’s ,” Dan Boris’s redraw of the circuit diagram , and Ricardo Ramos’s account of building a Pong clone.). Connected to the novelty factor is that. Sociability.

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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. Because there’s no grid connection, the platforms will basically operate as small, isolated power grids and therefore have to handle any sudden surges in power.

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Linda Doyle Blasts Through Ireland’s Academic Glass Ceiling

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Linda Doyle Employer Trinity College Dublin Title Provost Member grade Senior member Alma maters University College Cork, in Ireland, and Trinity College Dublin Being provost is “like managing a small town,” she says. The appeal of academia Doyle grew up in Togher, a suburb of Cork, Ireland. Her own field is wireless communications.

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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

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Goldstein: Oh, that’s interesting because the—I mean, where I was going with that connection to legislation is that—I think what Bob found in the EV transition is that the knowledge base of the people who are charged with making decisions about regulations is pretty small. And— Cass: Oh, that was quite controversial.

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Powering Offshore Wind Farms With Numerical Modeling of Subsea Cables

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This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. The message above was sent through the first transatlantic telegraph cable between Newfoundland and Ireland, way back in 1858. million km of submarine cables (Figure 1) in service, ranging from a short 131 km cable between Ireland and the U.K. Coil signals too weak to relay.

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The EV Transition Explained: Charger Infrastructure

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Some countries, like Ireland, estimate it needs 50 times more fast charging ports than it has now, while Australia will need many times more that number given what it has in place currently. As a Bloomberg article declares, those in the EV charging business are doing everything but making a profit.

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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

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On 4 March 2015, he sent an email to the campus newspaper, The Daily Targum : “A while back you had an article that talked about the DDoS attacks on Rutgers. The Mirai botnet exploited vulnerable Internet of Things devices, such as Web-connected video cameras, ones that supported Telnet, an outdated system for logging in remotely.

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