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Used Car Purchase Warning

Clean Fleet Report

This article may contain affiliate links. They often exude a unique personality and style that sets them apart from stock vehicles. These modifications can include custom paint jobs, aftermarket wheels and body kits that enhance the car’s aesthetic appeal. Used Car Purchase Warning Is It Wise to Choose a Modified Vehicle?

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

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. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear. MB of data. Clones, in a sense, are marvelous….it

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Fathers Can Be Gender Equity Advocates

Cars That Think

In my article " A Father's Perspective About Daughters and Engineering ," published in 2016, I shared my frustration about the lack of role models and the cultural messages that had left my two brilliant daughters—and many of their female friends—with little interest in pursuing an engineering career. Is it personal?

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., in Rochester, NY. You’re crazy.”

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The promise of wireless charging: smaller batteries, longer battery life, fewer charging stations

Charged EVs

Underneath, EV electrical architectures share a lot in common, and our integrations are actually very straightforward, whether it’s an aftermarket accessory as a kit or, as we’re doing with Volvo Cars, an OEM-installed solution. And the more they do that, the vehicles are actually not road-legal—they’re violating the axle weight limits.