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California gas vehicle ban faces pushback from 17 states

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Louis Post-Dispatch , the Missouri State Attorney General, along with Ohio, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia have sued to prevent CARB from banning new ICE vehicles after 2035. What do you think of the article?

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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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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. But Standard can’t touch that lithium until regulations are set.

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

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So the broad vision for computing’s future was well in place when, at the close of the 1960s, Xerox decided to create a new corporate R&D laboratory. Ethernet soon became the dominant local-networking standard and remains a vitally important wired-networking technology used today. billion U.S.

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

Cars That Think

This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. Legend has it that McColough then turned to Jack E. and Toronto, Ont.,

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. This article was first published as “Of Mice and menus: designing the user-friendly interface.” Smith et al.,

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