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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

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The high-tech navigation relied on multiple hard disk cartridges rather than multiple map CDs. & The first Guidestar test models in late 1994 were implemented in the San Jose, California area, distributed once again through Avis rental outlets. No touch screen troubles here!& to have a complete set of Guidestar maps.

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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. San Jose, Calif., in Mountain View, Calif.

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Memory Chips That Compute Will Accelerate AI

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It’s not a new idea. Last year, Samsung, the world’s largest maker of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), started rolling out processing-in-memory (PIM) tech. Xilinx Virtex Ultrascale + (Alveo) AI accelerator , the PIM tech delivered a nearly 2.5-fold Meanwhile, Rambus, based in San Jose, Calif., NeuroBlade.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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He worked at Georgia Power in Atlanta for more than 20 years, and he was a principal research engineer at the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center at Georgia Tech for more than 25 years, becoming NEETRAC's associate director. He had earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech.

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Road Test: 2021 Polestar 2

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A High-Tech Customer Experience. If you’re thinking, “this sounds like a Swedish Tesla,” you’re getting the idea. By taking what could be “Volvo’s EV model” and breaking it out as a standalone brand, Volvo and Geely are promoting exclusivity while creating a high-tech customer experience. High-Tech Infotainment.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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Coughlin is founder and president of Coughlin Associates in San Jose, Calif., This should start at the section level, but the idea of community should pervade IEEE, helping us be inclusive, efficient, and effective. Virginia Tech. Coughlin , Life Senior Member Francis Grosz , Life Fellow Saifur Rahman , and Fellow S.K.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

Charged EVs

Charged : You’ve done some pilot programs with battery-electric planes, but your long-term idea is to build fuel cell aircraft, correct? The idea from day one was hydrogen fuel cell-based drivetrains, but it’s hydrogen-electric, so you have to build the electric part. That’s why it’s three years out, and not this year or next year.