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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. An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. “If There he helped build Wi-Fi access points with a 2-kilometer range. Wireless innovator.

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

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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. 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.

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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. The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising. It’s a personal challenge. Happy New Year 1982!

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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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 and Convergent Technologies (San Jose, Calif.,

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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., San Jose, Calif., He started his explorations with chemistry. in Rochester, NY.

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