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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

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If I could just connect the HVAC system to my iPhone, I could control it from anywhere. But the technology that I needed to make it happen—reliable low-cost communications, cheap screens and processors—didn’t exist yet. It was a dead, unloved market with less than $1 billion in total annual sales in the United States.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

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In 2022, a schism in the chip design world and at Google erupted into the open. At issue was a reinforcement-learning AI system that Google uses to do a key step in laying out chunks of logic and memory for its AI accelerator chips, or TPUs. Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design Chung-Kuan Cheng et al.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Hawkeye 360 , which also markets its service to the shipping industry and security services in countries such as the United States, was the only bidder and won the contract.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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dollar as the dominant medium for exchange in the United States? Here I outline the rationale for such a private digital currency and explain how one might soon take off in the United States. The owner of a FIL token is essentially buying a security connected to (and making a bet on) revenue in the data-storage market.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Not to be outdone, on Tuesday the Norwegian electric car startup, Think, was in Portland being wooed by the state as one of 8 potential places to site their first car manufacturing facility in the United States. Many EV groups online for more info or google EV clubs or EV racing and follow the website’s links.

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