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Sprig Electric pairs Tesla Powerpack with rooftop PV system

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The pairing, installed by Sprig Electric at their corporate headquarters in San Jose, will cut the building’s total energy costs by 80-95%. The components of the system include 1,177 solar panels that are spread over 20,000 square feet of the building’s roof top. MWh of energy and saved 4.94

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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When you encourage people to spread falsities to get advertising and make money, then this thing kind of builds on itself. A decentralized cloud would minimize the need to use third-party services to manage and store data on people and business enterprises. There he helped build Wi-Fi access points with a 2-kilometer range.

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

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by-9 meter) screens displaying a computer-generated representation of New York Harbor, complete with buildings, piers, movable buoys, changing weather conditions, and other ships to be avoided. Only when the simulator hardware was ready would they build a compiler to translate the database into the appropriate machine language.

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

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I started indulging in my hobby of building robots, and subsequently met up with other like-minded people at the Silicon Valley Home Brew Robotics Club. You’re going to destroy your house if you build it with that stuff!” Bob and I wondered if we could build something similar. His first comment was, “are you crazy?

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California Energy Commission adopts $100M investment plan for 2013-2014 for green vehicles and fuels

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million for regional alternative fuel readiness and planning, building on previous projects supporting these efforts. $2 These charging sites will be located at 7-Eleven convenience stores, and will provide a charging network in Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties. The agreement includes $2.5

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. San Jose, Calif., in Rochester, NY. Sunnyvale, Calif.,

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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For example, he noted, “the standard way of building oscillators is to build one and then multiplex it until you have as many as you need. Yannes, for example, had made economy his credo when he was an impecunious high-school student looking for parts to build a sound synthesizer. It’s a personal challenge. Happy New Year 1982!

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