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Perspective: Europeans in the lead with range extenders for hybrid vehicles; 2nd vs. 3rd generation

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That includes most forklifts, golf cars and mobility vehicles for the disabled plus Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and personal submarines. The company is also producing a US variant of the conference in San Jose, California in November. Indeed, most electric aircraft are pure electric as well. Largest sector by value.

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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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In 2021, the IMU units you could buy off the shelf were pretty inexpensive and reliable. They were not widely used, but for some reason the surplus store had a big box of them. We bought a booth at the first RoboNexus trade show held in San Jose in 2004. for “Automated Music Personality,” or AMPbot for short.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising. At a meeting of Charpentier, Winterble, and Tramiel, the decision was made to go for a personal computer. It’s a personal challenge. I personally had to play the heavy on a lot of stuff,” he said.

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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., He chose the latter.

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