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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. “If His Vodafone team worked on technologies that would limit the use of personal data for advertising and “eyeball-grabbing, because they are very disruptive and can incentivize the spread of disinformation.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. San Jose, Calif., Also on the horizon was a bit-map-based personal computer— the Apple Macintosh.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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This article was first published as "Design case history: the Commodore 64." The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising. At a meeting of Charpentier, Winterble, and Tramiel, the decision was made to go for a personal computer.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. San Jose, Calif., While a research manager at Intel Corp., A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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This article was first published as "Intel's secret is out." Here, however, the plan was to make it possible for users to bypass the SRAM and attach the processor directly to a DRAM, which would allow the chip to be designed into low-cost systems as well as to address very large data structures. a division of Unisys Corp.).

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