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Hi-fi, Radio, and Retro: The DIY Projects Spectrum Readers Love

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This month we’re celebrating the launch of our second PDF collection of Hands On articles, which IEEE members can download from IEEE Spectrum ’s website and share with friends. Far and away our most popular article in the last five years has been “ Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort of Cheap ” (November 2018).

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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

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Where everyone had access to preventative health care that was both personalized and less invasive? Nonprofits are already using cheap sensors to pinpoint heat islands in cities, or neighborhoods where air pollution disproportionately affects communities of color. What about reducing pollution in urban and poor communities?

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The Rise of Groupware

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But they are the outgrowth of years of hard work done before the Internet became a thing, when there was a thorny problem: How could people collaborate effectively when everyone’s using a stand-alone personal computer? The new personal-computing technologies clearly needed to do more to foster collaboration. Left: Ann E.

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Potential Motors unveils the Adventure 1: an all-electric Overlanding van

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The vehicle starts at $136,600, and a preorder of the van isn’t cheap either at $1,000. Luckily, according to MotorTrend , the vehicle will be available in person at the Overland Expo East in Arrington, Virginia, this October. What do you think of the article? Sadly, the van’s price tag is not for the faint of heart.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

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Porsche Whistleblower: “60% of all delivered Taycan have battery issues that caused replacements, damages and fires”

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To pretend to have done a repair that never happened and accept a lower battery capacity caused by a cheap Porsche onboard charger without informing the customer would be misleading, to say the least. The supplier has a reputable name, but a cheap charger was chosen to keep costs down. Porsche’s Zuffenhausen site.

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Feature: Choosing the Right Car to Suit Your Needs

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This article may contain affiliate links. No car comes particularly cheap. The perfect car for one person could be a nightmare vehicle for another. A sports car will be great for one person but entirely impractical for another. Navigating the Path to Four-Wheel Bliss. A car is a big investment.

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