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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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Hundreds of thousands of Pong sets were distributed through the department store Sears. His house was the first in the neighborhood to have a home version of Pong. Later versions had individual controllers with long cords that allowed players to sit back more comfortably. Now you could compete directly against your friends and family.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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Other trials include commercial auto fleets, a set of utility vans in Copenhagen , two electric school buses in Illinois, and five in New York. Kok works with others in city government to compile data and create maps, dividing the city into neighborhoods. In the UK, experiments are. None evolved into a large-scale system.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Even something as simple as putting in an order at a McDonald’s drive-through in Illinois has raised legal questions about collecting biometric data without consent. Police suspected King was the anonymous source—the looter who confessed to torching a store. Police later arrested a man named Edward Lee King on unrelated drug charges.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood. The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, in collaboration with MC10, Inc., DOE grant: $7,200,000). DOE grant: $9,151,300). Breakthrough High Efficiency Shrouded Wind Turbine. DOE grant: $3,000,000).

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