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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. “If His Vodafone team worked on technologies that would limit the use of personal data for advertising and “eyeball-grabbing, because they are very disruptive and can incentivize the spread of disinformation.

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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. Also on the horizon was a bit-map-based personal computer— the Apple Macintosh. What’s NeXT?

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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.” In 1984, the low-cost Macintosh from Apple Computer Inc., brought the friendly interface to thousands of personal computer users. It appeared in the September 1989 issue of IEEE Spectrum. Cupertino, Calif.,

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. While a research manager at Intel Corp., It appeared in the February 1994 issue of IEEE Spectrum. You’re crazy.”

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