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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

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If we look at the fine print, GM actually introduced a sort-of-a-hybrid vehicle as a 2004 model , though the 2004 Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid/GMC Sierra Hybrid didn't have regenerative braking.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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In 2004 Barroso was tasked with investigating ways to build more efficient data centers. The company housed its servers at leased space in third-party data centers, which were basically cages in which a few racks of computing equipment were placed. As Google’s business expanded, its need for infrastructure increased.

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Remembering Jung Uck Seo, Former IEEE Region 10 Director

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Jung Uck Seo , who served as 2003–2004 IEEE Region 10 director, died on 11 January at the age of 70. While working at Korea Telecom , the IEEE Life Fellow led the development of the TDX-1 digital telephone switching system. Later he worked to commercialize the code division multiple access method of encoding data sources.

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer Jacob Ziv

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The Lempel-Ziv data compression algorithm, which paved the way for GIF, PNG, and ZIP files, was designated an IEEE Milestone in 2004. Ziv’s scientific contributions “changed forever the way we store, process, and transfer information,” the Technion’s president, physicist Uri Sivan , wrote in a tribute to Ziv. “He

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