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LIVE BLOG: Tesla Q1 2024 earnings call

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I will be updating this article in real-time, so please keep refreshing the page to view the latest updates on this story. Elon Musk also personally thanks Viecha for his contributions to the company. Tesla will aim to optimize its buying process for it would be possible to “buying a car in under a minute.”

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The Day the U.S. TV Industry Died

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This article was first published as “The longest survivor loses its grip.” But at about $1000, the flat tube is not a consumer product and instead is benefiting Zenith’s latest focus of interest-its relatively new and highly profitable personal computer business. Admiral buys Cortron, leaving 17 U.S. Then, the Glenview, Ill.,

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

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This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. Also on the horizon was a bit-map-based personal computer— the Apple Macintosh.

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Proposed Changes to Federal EV Tax Credit – Part 3: MSRP Must Be Less Than $80,000

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As documented in an article in The Drive — “ Tesla’s Cheap 94-Mile Model 3 Has Cost Canadian Taxpayers $115 Million ” — Tesla produced an even lower-priced version of its popular Model 3 to come in under Canada’s iZEV program threshold. But that is a debate for another article. The second aspect is the political optics.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.”

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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In 1977, he wrote an article for Kilobaud: The Small Computer Magazine describing the “Sublogic Three-Dimensional Micrographics Package” he had created, which brought 3D to microcomputers outfitted with the popular Motorola 6800 microprocessor. Microsoft worried that some consumers might view it as a low-cost PC alternative.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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This article was first published as "Design case history: the Commodore 64." The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising. At a meeting of Charpentier, Winterble, and Tramiel, the decision was made to go for a personal computer.

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