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A Cheapskate in Monterey

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My introduction to Monterey, John Steinbeck’s 1945 classic novel “Cannery Row,” describes its waterfront lined in sardine canneries as “a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.” I passed a landscape painter and jaw-dropping Pebble Beach mansions before coasting into Carmel.

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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. I wrote a list of about 30 or 40 events like this over the last 50 years where, it was going to be the next big thing. Brooks: Absolutely.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. The most notorious problem was “sparkle,” a defect that caused small spots of light to appear on the display screen.

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Subscribe Green News Events Manufacturers Region New Cars Used Cars Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Chrysler , Dodge , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , SAE World Congress Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day by Sebastian Blanco on Apr 22nd 2009 at 7:48PM Two months ago we went for a ride in the Dodge Circuit EV.

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

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At a press event on Monday, Oregon’s governor, Ted Kulongoski, was talking up Nissan’s previously announced partnership with the state. Powered by Blogrunner Previous post The Promise of a Better Light Bulb? Not good for large EV’s but great for light ones. electric car race with i MiEV in Oregon?

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Steve” Broady was convicted as the mastermind of the 55th Street “wiretap nest,” the largest illegal wiretapping operation ever to come to light in the United States. Tiny, cheap, and almost impossible to detect in action, induction coils were in wide use in wiretapping operations of all sorts. Writing in the July issue of.