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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

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We live in an age in which it's cheap to take photos but will eventually be costly to store them en masse, as backup services set limits and begin charging for overages. This is good news, because our scheme resulted in extraordinarily large compression ratios. Was it not the same person because the friend's jaw was more angular?

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BYD’s home city in China now has more supercharging plugs than gas pumps

Baua Electric

So all those cheap EVs need to be fast-charged, and what better place to expand than BYD’s home city? They’ve been conveniently sited in commercial complexes, bus stops, and industrial parks. The post BYD’s home city in China now has more supercharging plugs than gas pumps appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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The i4 EV is now the cheapest lease in BMW’s entire lineup

Baua Electric

BMW is a luxury automaker, so the i4 isn’t a cheap car. The i4 is cheaper because BMW is applying $7,500 in lease cash from the federal government’s Commercial Clean Vehicle Credit in its pricing. The post The i4 EV is now the cheapest lease in BMW’s entire lineup appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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Intel microprocessors now power personal computers made by major manufacturers including Dell , HP , and IBM. The company created the first commercially available microprocessor, the 4004 , in 1971. So I wrote the article to try to get the point across: This is the way the industry is going to get things really cheap.”

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Discover Le Havre, Where Impressionism Was Born

Baua Electric

When the French king François I created the port of Le Havre in 1517, priority was to create “un havre” — a harbor — that would serve as both a military site to protect France from invaders and a commercial port to open Paris to the world. A favorite of locals (about €20 per person for lunch). The city was an afterthought.

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

Cars That Think

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. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

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2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz: Electric Microbus for North America appears, at last

Charged EVs

Iconic design, two-tone paint, three rows, AWD; whatever you call it, the Buzz won’t be cheap. It’s been on sale in Europe for a year, as has the Cargo commercial-van variant. Whatever it is, it won’t be cheap Defining the ID.Buzz as a vehicle is difficult. and Canadian markets in the second half of next year. 4s sold in Canada.