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Toyota collaborates on Tesla Virtual Power Plant competitor

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” The system will be tested at Oncor’s grid testing facility south of Dallas, Texas. ” While the Toyota V2G program is not a perfect competitor to the Tesla VPP, especially considering the vehicle cannot always be plugged into the grid, it may be able to offer a reasonably similar experience at a lower price point.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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And in 2005, the Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group purchased IBM's PC business. Here, Steve Jobs introduced the Apple II, with a price tag of US $1,298 (about $5,800 today), while rival Commodore unveiled its PET. IBM lowered the PCjr's price, added functions, and tried to persuade dealers to promote it, to no avail.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Two days after the launch, Goddard received its first MSS image, showing the Dallas–Fort Worth area. (In The Kremlin, trying to avoid famine at home, sent representatives to the United States to purchase American wheat, corn, oats, rye, and soybeans. ERTS had a spatial resolution of 80 meters. billion in today’s dollars).

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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In contention was the contract for the electronics of Polaroid’s secret project—a pioneering product introduced in 1972 as the SX-70, a camera eventually purchased by millions of people. This article was first published as "The battle for the SX-70." of Dallas, Texas. He is now a design manager at Dallas Semiconductor Corp.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.” The author spoke with many members of the design team in the months following the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh, however, Steve Jobs did not grant an interview for this article. It appeared in the December 1984 issue of IEEE Spectrum. Motorola Corp.

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Opinion: Blaming Rising Fuel Prices on High Temps is Dumb

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With average fuel prices creeping back up, you’ve undoubtedly seen a slew of articles trying to explain why. But is this really the keystone issue for why you’re once again contending with undesirable fuel prices? But is this really the keystone issue for why you’re once again contending with undesirable fuel prices?&

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