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Ford launches app developer challenge to improve consumer understanding of personal fuel efficiency

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Jim Farley, Ford executive vice president of Global Marketing, Sales and Service and Lincoln, announced the contest at the 2013 New York International Auto Show. More than 1,500 developers have registered to download the OpenXC software development kit since it became publicly available in January 2013.

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Volkswagen partners with D-Wave on quantum computing; CeBIT premiere of research project for traffic flow optimization

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In the course of this project, experts from the Volkswagen Code Lab in San Francisco and the Volkswagen Data Lab in Munich and used data from approximately 10,000 taxis in Beijing. Earlier this month, IBM announced an industry-first initiative to build commercially available universal quantum computing systems.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

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CalCars supports conversion programs as a strategy to increase awareness and support for PHEVs and thereby motivate automakers to build production PHEVs. A new trend is conversion of internal combustion engine vehicles. is Hymotions San Francisco-based distributor/installer. Go to Hymotion.com. Green Gears, Inc.

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

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The 20 PARC employees were housed in a small, rented building, “with rented chairs, rented desks, a telephone with four buttons on it, and no receptionist,” recalled David Thornburg, who joined PARC’s General Science Laboratory fresh out of graduate school in 1971. MAXC set a pattern for PARC: building its own hardware.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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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., The project was given the internal moniker “4004.” San Jose, Calif.,

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Fathers Can Be Gender Equity Advocates

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Travis is a professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law , where she co-directs its Work Law and Justice Program. This makes the father-daughter relationship an excellent entry place for inviting men into partnerships to build a more equitable world. Having daughters fueled his urgency to act.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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In San Francisco on Feb. For several years, Yu had been intrigued by Kohn’s zeal for building a superfast RISC microprocessor, but he felt Intel lacked the resources to invest in such a project. Building the SRAMs using circuit-design techniques borrowed from dynamic RAM technology cut that to about 0.5

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