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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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A decentralized cloud would minimize the need to use third-party services to manage and store data on people and business enterprises. The HEC can allow consumers to better control how their data is stored, shared, and monetized, Alamouti says. Alamouti, cofounder and executive board chairman of Mimik , in Oakland, Calif.,

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

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Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books. They intended both to sell this setup as a turnkey system and to franchise the publishing equivalent of a one-hour photo store. Desktop publishing, though, was not what Warnock and Geschke at first had in mind. What’s NeXT? 2, 1988, pp.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

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Complete plans for the Galaksija were first published in 1983 in an article in the computer magazine Računari u vašoj kući as a joint venture between the Galaksija’s designer, Voja Antonić , and the magazine’s editor, Dejan Ristanović. (An An English translation of the article was published by No Starch Press in 2018 in PoC||GTFO Vol.

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GM Proposes Electric Car Plug Standard - GoodCleanTech

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OTCBB: ESYE) Posted by: Uncle B April 19, 2009 9:22 AM This premature effort to exert coercing "Microsoft" like legal muscle control on something as important as design engineering, something their "Vapor-ware Volt" shows total lack of is farcical, at best. All Rights Reserved. is prohibited.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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The Mac’s success during the 1980s spurred Apple Computer to pursue legal action over ownership of many features of the graphical user interface. Suits now being litigated could assign those innovations not to the designers and their companies, but to those who first filed for legal protection on them. Santa Monica, Calif.,

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Squibb, were at the time locked in a nasty legal battle over the commercial rights to the antibiotic tetracycline. With the help of simple magnetic devices called “ induction coils ”—essentially spare radio parts, available at most any hardware store—the induction method amounted, somewhat paradoxically, to a wireless wiretap.