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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.). What game do you think we will be talking about in 50 years?

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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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Most of the activity is in Europe , where there are at least 10 major offshore wind and hydrogen projects , including demonstration systems being built or planned in the North Sea, the Atlantic, and off the coast of Ireland. Airplanes, for example, won’t be able to fly long distances on battery power.

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

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In fact, Ozzie Zehner wrote an article for us way back in the mid-Teens about the— the dirty secret behind your electric car is the coal that fuels it. And— Cass: Oh, that was quite controversial. I think maybe because the cover was a car perched at the top of a giant mountain of coal. So this was an official government goal. We had Blu-ray.

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