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RCA’s Lucite Phantom Teleceiver Introduced the Idea of TV

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Although television technology had been in development for decades, and the BBC had been airing live programs since 1929 in the United Kingdom, competing technologies and licensing disputes kept the U.S. An abridged version of this article appears in the February 2023 print issue as “ Yesterday’s TV of Tomorrow.”

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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Corporate Cash The idea of private digital currencies goes back to at least 1994, when the late Edward de Bono wrote of the “IBM dollar.” In principle, Amazon could mandate that sellers had to accept amazons instead of dollars for sales in the Amazon marketplace. dollar—and hence to the U.S. Netflix is AWS’s largest customer.