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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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Alcorn had majored in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, but had never played a video game before. At the time, video games were mostly the domain of research laboratories and universities. Connected to the novelty factor is that. Sociability. Calming Effect (ASMR).

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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. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. as well as 600 universities throughout the country. Lyft also has rolled out multiple-rider sharing that creates an on-demand carpool.

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Portable Life-Support Device Provides Critical Care in Conflict and Disaster Zones

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by LEMO. His research at Toronto’s University Health Network has made major breakthroughs in understanding the absorption and use of oxygen by the body. He named it after the Toronto neighborhood where he still lives — Thornhill Medical. A bomb explodes — medical devices set to action.

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The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

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This situation is not true universally. Xcel president Chris Clark told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that four or five families buying EVs noticeably affects the transformer load in a neighborhood, with a family buying an EV “adding another half of their house.”

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NYU Researchers Pave the Way for Future Shared Mobility

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This article is sponsored by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. federal government's University Transportation Centers program back in 2016. Imagine a bracelet, and the different links in the bracelet are algorithmically programmed to go the last mile to a different neighborhood," explained Chow.

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Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

From the article: “The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. And at the headquarters of Pacific Gas and Electric, utility executives are preparing “heat maps” of neighborhoods that they fear may overload the power grid in their exuberance for electric cars.&#.