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

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Back then, Warnock already had a rough idea how to “Print Anything.” The entrepreneurs in 1982 found Adobe a suitable name since the creek meandered near both their domes and, even more important, had none of the Qs, Xs, Ys, and Zs then popular with high-tech startups. It appeared in the May 1988 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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That device, now known by a variety of names—including memory stick, USB stick, flash drive, as well as thumb drive—changed the way computer files are stored and transferred. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! The sense I’m getting is that Optimus isn’t as bad as people thought, but also, nobody [in the robotics community] is very impressed or surprised by any of the tech. The elephant in the room is the application ideas, which are frankly ridiculous. Animesh Garg.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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It’s a textbook example of the mixture of amazement and, especially, anxiety that often accompanies a tech triumph. 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. And it’s really cheap.

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New compact Mercedes-Benz electric cars will have more than 750km range and charge twice as fast

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Called MMA, for Mercedes-Benz Modular Architecture, it draws on innovative engineering ideas tried out in the Vision EQXX. Mercedes-Benz Concept CLA Class To demonstrate the energy efficiency of the one-off EQXX, this aerodynamic tech testbed was driven more than 1000km on a single charge last year.

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Best EVs of 2022: Our verdict on the new electric cars of the year

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I must admit I’m quite excited about the Cupra Born , because the idea of a hot hatch with EV torque punch is quite enticing (and because the Mini EV really doesn’t provide it in the way you’d hope). For the money, the drive experience (bar the handling), its features, tech, style and overall presentation surpassed my quite low expectations.