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After 50 Years, Digital Voices Speak Again

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“Ali Baba knew how men buy lime.”. The beach is dry and shallow at low tide.”. Instead, they were encoded in the grooves of a phonograph record bound inside the magazine. In any case, I started wondering if there might be another copy of the magazine in our stacks and, if so, where it might be located.

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The Boring Company’s skeptics need to calm down about the LVCC Loop

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But just like SpaceX critics who insisted that orbital rockets would never land on a drone ship in the middle of the ocean, or Tesla skeptics who insisted that the Model 3 was a lemon that no one would buy, The Boring Company’s critics may very well be missing a crucial point. . Similar tunnels could be built in Florida soon as well.

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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

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For a fee, people send money to friends and family, pay bills, and buy groceries using a mobile wallet app. magazine included her on its 2020 Top 100 Female Founders list. The issue with a money-transfer protocol is that it needs to be fast and low-cost. For her development of geeRemit, Inc.

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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. If it had been poor xerography,” says Paxton, “it wouldn’t have mattered how good our technology was.”

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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In 1977, he wrote an article for Kilobaud: The Small Computer Magazine describing the “Sublogic Three-Dimensional Micrographics Package” he had created, which brought 3D to microcomputers outfitted with the popular Motorola 6800 microprocessor. “It Microsoft worried that some consumers might view it as a low-cost PC alternative.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. Whenever a competitor came out with a product, we would buy and dismantle it, and it would kick around the office.” It’s like buying a brand-new car complete with a chauffeur who insists on driving everywhere.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News.

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