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The Future of Moore's Law Is Inside This Willy Wonka Machine

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That’s a sort of definitive fact. So perhaps you could take me through this technology, which is called extreme ultraviolet, which sounds like a soda I might buy, but yeah. But extreme ultraviolet is definitely cooler. Moore: Sure thing. Yes, Moore’s law is slowing down. Moore: Sorry. Well, they could have called it soft X-rays.

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Study finds that EV-specific factors rather than socio-demographic variables better predictors of EV uptake

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Estonia deciding to buy 500 MiEVs in 2012 or Belgium offering high financial incentives but perhaps not to the right market, noted lead author Will Sierzchula. These differences are likely explained by country-specific factors—e.g., —Sierzchula et al. The Delft team collected and analyzed data from 30 countries for 2012.

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EC Survey finds majority of Europeans willing to compromise on performance, size, range and price to reduce vehicle emissions; 53% say they use car as main mode of transport

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The same was true for price, in the first three countries, but the French were much less likely to be willing to buy a “clean” car if it was more expensive. The highest level of support for such schemes existed in Luxembourg (71%), Italy (68%), the Netherlands (64%), Cyprus (61%) and Belgium (60%).

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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Their charter was 'Ship ‘em’” “It takes a very tough person,” explained Charpentier, “to say ‘I’m not shipping these because they’re not as good as they could be’—especially when people are clamoring to buy them.” ?Changes If you let marketing get involved with product definition, you’ll never get it done quickly," Yannes said.

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