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

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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.” These facilities will be built in Argentina, Chile, California, Arkansas, and Utah, respectively.

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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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America’s lithium laws fail to keep pace with rapid development – ET Auto

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Nevada, which has the only commercial U.S. The Texas legislature, for example, last year approved a law – supported by Standard Lithium and Chevron – that instructed the state’s oilfield regulator to craft regulations for lithium extraction from brines.

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

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The people who developed the Alto came to Xerox PARC from universities, industrial labs, and commercial ventures, bringing with them diverse experiences and skills. Alan Kay Metcalfe left PARC in 1979 to found 3Com, which, along with other startups, commercialized Ethernet. Taylor also drew researchers from the Berkeley Computer Corp.

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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’.” The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. Networking: The Story of Ethernet By today’s standards the Alto was not a particularly powerful computer.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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This article was first published as “Of Mice and menus: designing the user-friendly interface.” tested all the commercially available pointing devices, from the still-popular light pen to a joystick and a Graphicon (a curve-tracing device that used a pen mounted on the arm of a potentiometer). A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore.

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The EV Transition Explained: Charger Infrastructure

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Each post may have multiple types of service connectors to support different EV charging connector standards. Level 1, 2, and 3 Chargers Level 1 (L1) chargers plug directly into a standard residential 120V AC outlet and supply an average of 1.3 A charging post itself may have one or more ports , where each port can charge a single EV.

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