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

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Back then, Warnock already had a rough idea how to “Print Anything.” 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. Warnock, however, took the stack and dictionary ideas—along with what he had learned from the harbor project—to PARC.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

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This marketing choice by Ford is either a very bad idea (brand dilution) or a genius plan to move the pony car into the modern era. It also toyed with the idea of presenting Prius as a sub-brand at the point it had four different models, but dropped it. Not easy or cheap, but it has worked so far. I’m hoping for the latter.

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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice? In the same way that a person’s unique fingerprints can be used to identify them, the idea with voiceprinting is that, given a recording, the same can be done with a person’s voice. And he’s got some ideas for how to make that happen.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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We were fresh out of ideas for whatever chips the rest of the world might want us to do,” said Charpentier, “So we decided to produce state-of-the-art video and sound chips for the world’s next great video game.” They then packed as many of those ideas as they could into a predefined area of silicon. “Al It’s a personal challenge.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

utilizing these ideas and instructions in an attempting to enhance national security, reduce gas consumption, vehicle "emissions", your carbon footprint, or smog, you do so at your own risk & peril. edit ] EAA The Electric Auto Association ( EAA ) was formed in 1967 in San Jose, California. Its all about the Fuel Source!

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

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The Circuit is similar to the Tesla Roadster, a $109,000 sports car produced by a small California company. "The whole idea is that this is technology you can adapt to any existing niche," he said. More Miami on the cheap House prices in Miami soared, then crashed. Now buyers, like the Lamuses, are venturing back.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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Single lens reflex (SLR) A camera viewing system that, by swinging an angled mirror temporarily between lens and film, allows a person looking into the viewfinder to seem to see through the lens, previewing the image that will be captured on film. The idea was to work on this dream together as soon as the technology arrived.

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