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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. It’s a very dangerous situation,” Alamouti warns. 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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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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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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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.

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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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