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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. The TT-5 was considered the “everyman’s version” and had a starting price of $199 ($4,300 today). television market from taking off.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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Using amazons for purchases would give users a discount off the regular purchase price, maybe 2 percent. In principle, Amazon could mandate that sellers had to accept amazons instead of dollars for sales in the Amazon marketplace. This article appears in the December 2023 print issue as “Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currencies.”

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Last year Oregon had also aggressively negotiated with the Chinese carmaker, BYD , to manufacture its line of plug-in hybrids in the state for sale in the U.S.) I also wrote an article about cars and what’s good and not good. So why has Oregon become a hotbed of activity for electric vehicles all of a sudden?

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