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GM leaps ahead in lithium mining race, secures next-gen extraction deal

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This has pushed many, including GM, further down its supply chain, buying up companies and securing supplies for the future. EnergyX proudly advertises that “the company’s LiTAS technology increases lithium recovery rates to over 90% from the current industry standard of 30-40% using ponds and hit 94% during their field trials.”

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

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That goal led ultimately to a page description language called PostScript, today the de facto standard of desktop publishing. This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." proved loath to support a truly standard language. It appeared in the May 1988 issue of IEEE Spectrum. s laser printers.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

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Xerox buys into computing This wasn’t Xerox’s only big bet on computing. Into PARC flowed many former ARPA contractors, including some from Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory , the University of Utah ‘s computer graphics operation, Doug Engelbart’s group at SRI , and BBN’s artificial-intelligence efforts.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” One of the first decisions Pake in turn made was to hire, among others, Robert Taylor, then at the University of Utah , to help him recruit engineers and scientists for the Computer Science and Systems Science Laboratories.

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