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Survey Shows Overwhelming Interest in a Four-Day Workweek

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It will minimize the time needed to be in-person at work.” Increasing productivity with a shorter workweek Dante Medina is an electrical and electronics engineering specialist at Mercedes-Benz Argentina. But Medina says that if it did, employees could have a better work/life balance and therefore be more productive at work.

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2022 Ford F-150 Lightning First Drive: Ford’s most valued model is now electric

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We drove several F-150 Lightnings, in various trims, with and without payloads or trailers, out of San Antonio and through the winding roads of Texas hill country during the first week of May. But building an all-electric version of its core product, the company’s golden goose, took the EV program into the heart of the company.

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

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Madni sat at the helm of BEI Sensors and Controls, overseeing a product line that included a variety of sensor and inertial-navigation devices, but its customers were less varied—mainly, the aerospace and defense electronics industries. In 1992, Asad M. And he had a problem. The Cold War had ended, crashing the U.S. defense industry.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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San Antonio, Texas, which, architected by Computer Terminals, was named the 8008. 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. Hoff always “had to do very cutting-edge work,” Faggin told Spectrum. “I

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