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Four Benefits of EV Charging for Hospitality

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Popular driver apps and services (including Google Maps and the Blink Charging app ) now list charger locations, directions, and pricing when drivers are looking for a place to charge, and 9 of the top 14 travel booking sites include filters for EV charging. Albany, NY with 56.8%, and Portland, OR with 56.3%

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The Unsung Inventor Who Chased the LED Rainbow

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San Jose, Calif. The Iowa farm boy was introduced to science by Illa Podendorf , an author of children’s science books and a family friend who kept the young Craford supplied with texts that suited his interests. Soon, in 1974, he was bumped up again to technology director, and moved from Monsanto’s corporate headquarters in St.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips. Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books. San Jose, Calif.,

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Biggest surprise in career Media hysteria over the microprocessor Patents 17 Books recently read Introduction to Nuclear Reactor Theory by John R. founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, Intel chief executive officer Andrew Grove Favorite restaurants Postrio and Bella Voce in San Francisco, Beausejour in Los Altos, Calif.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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What surprised the rest of the home-computer industry most, however, was the introductory price of the Commodore 64: $595 for a unit incorporating a keyboard, a central processor, the graphics and sound chips, and 64 kilobytes of memory instead of the 16 or 32 that were then considered the norm. We agonized over every transistor.”

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