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The Boring Company’s skeptics need to calm down about the LVCC Loop

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The Boring Company’s Las Vegas Convention Center Loop has been completed, and as with every other project from Elon Musk, the initiative has attracted a barrage of criticism from skeptics, some of whom have ridiculed and mocked the transport tunnel system. Credit: The Boring Company ). And these are just from some publications.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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His original hypothesis, published in a 1965 Electronics magazine article , was that the number of transistors would double each year. Unhappy with William Shockley’s leadership, Moore, Noyce, and six other Shockley associates left the company on the same day in 1957. His projection came true over the decade that followed.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. Will companies marketing large language models every justify the enormous valuations some of these companies are now enjoying?

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

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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. Adobe Systems founders John Warnock (right) and Charles Geschke visited Adobe Creek, inspiration for their company’s name. Evans & Sutherland had never produced anything as complex. San Jose, Calif.,

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Stopping Infection Outbreaks with AI and Big Data

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Companies like the Manufacturing Technology Centre are revolutionizing the designs of additive manufactured parts by first building simulation apps from COMSOL models, allowing them to share their analyses with different teams and explore new manufacturing opportunities with their own customers. It’s really been a pleasure.

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Powered By IEEE Program Saves Startups Money

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Running a startup isn't cheap. Many founders bootstrap their company to survive. Elijah oversees hardware design and manages the company while his brother writes the software. Elijah says access to journals and magazines in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library is helping him keep up to date on advances in his field.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

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To survive, help is needed from Italys Fiat but, as negotiations with the Italian automaker bog down and the two week deadline to hammer out a partnership approaches, the companys future - as well as its aspirations for an electric hot rod - are increasingly in doubt. More Miami on the cheap House prices in Miami soared, then crashed.