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

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One thing that Boring Company critics typically forget is the fact that the LVCC Loop’s tunnels are incredibly cheap and quick to build. Prufrock is designed to begin tunneling within 48 hours of its arrival onsite as well, making its deployments very easy and quick.

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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. 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.” His projection came true over the decade that followed.

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When They Electrified Christmas

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Whether for religious or secular celebrations, the variety and functionality of lights have exploded in recent years, abetted by cheap and colorful LEDs and compact electronics. advertised "Winking Fairy Lights for Christmas Trees" in Hardware Dealers' Magazine. In much of the world, December is a month of twinkling lights. of Chicago.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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The motor control module contained a linear control IC, an NPN motor drive transistor, and a discrete PNP dynamic braking transistor, and gave the designers little trouble. Polaroid also asked Fairchild, which it viewed as the country’s leader in IC technology, to tackle a design that would push the state of the art.

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

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Any system he designed, he vowed, would have to have a “Print Anything” architecture. Those lessons learned, his group turned to expanding Gaffney’s little interpreter into a full programming system for computer-aided design (CAD). In 1977, that project was released by Evans & Sutherland as The Design System. “It but also C.

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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. Along with the end of Moore’s Law and Dennard scaling —this is allowing silicon designers to get outside of the idea of just a faster PC.

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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.