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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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Intel microprocessors now power personal computers made by major manufacturers including Dell , HP , and IBM. His original hypothesis, published in a 1965 Electronics magazine article , was that the number of transistors would double each year. His projection came true over the decade that followed. After earning his Ph.D.,

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. MB of data. The thumb drive was all that—and more.

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Wireless Worries Overshadow Triumphs of RF Research

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For a good review of 5G bio-effects studies, see [Ken] Karipidis’s article that found ‘no confirmed evidence that low-level RF fields above 6 GHz such as those used by the 5G network are hazardous to human health.’” —Kenneth Foster, University of Pennsylvania In your opinion, is exposure assessment a solved problem? The list goes on.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass.

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Failed Local Paper Put Out Of Its Misery - By Creative Greenius!

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They never worked very hard and they spent way too much time making personal phone calls and just goofing off. It’s not even cheap at twenty five cents an issue. It’s not even cheap at twenty five cents an issue. I’ve been carrying them for far too long and it’s time for them to go now.

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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. from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol.

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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This article is part of our special report on AI, “ The Great AI Reckoning.”. In 1958, a New York Times article quoted Rosenblatt as saying that "the machine would be the first device to think as the human brain.". Cornell University Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. The Minsky Family; Carnegie Mellon University (2).

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