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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. Intel helped cement the region as a global center for technological innovation, the article says. He also was awarded a National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 1990.

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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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Opinon: Lithium Market Set To Explode; All Eyes Are On Nevada

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This really is disruptive technology. The lithium, found in salty water, or brines, is the most cost-effective on the market; it’s cheap and easy to extract, giving competing battery gigafactories new, affordable American lithium resources that will be a global game-changer.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Rapid and pivotal advances in technology have a way of unsettling people, because they can reverberate mercilessly, sometimes, through business, employment, and cultural spheres. And so now, we’re seeing very cheap pieces of very effective silicon that you put right with a camera. And it’s really cheap. Brooks: Absolutely.

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

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Undeterred, Jobs and Robert Belleville, then director of engineering for Apple and now director of strategic planning for Convergent Technologies Inc., The results are proprietary and are encrypted inside the ROMs that contain PostScript instructions because this font technology is the key distinction between Adobe’s product and others.

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Stopping Infection Outbreaks with AI and Big Data

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Doctors at UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, have developed a new method that uses three distinct, relatively new, technologies, whole genome sequencing surveillance, and machine learning, and electronic health records to identify undetected outbreaks and their transmission routes. Until perhaps now.

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Volvo S40 takes Green Car of the Year title

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According to the magazine’s editor Steve Fowler, the S40 is a “great example of a car maker cleverly refining existing technologies to make a seriously green car&#.