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

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Convinced that Xerox was making a mistake, Warnock and Geschke left PARC to implement their page description language once again, but this time within a corporation they controlled. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. “Gee,’ I said, ‘A secret standard—I find this a hard concept to understand.’”

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

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Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) rules are, as the name implies, based on an average fuel economy of all the vehicles a manufacturer sells. More Miami on the cheap House prices in Miami soared, then crashed. 107.12% Rite Aid Corporation 0.66 40.40% Unisys Corporation 1.49 5.90 / 0.07% Nasdaq 1,673.07

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

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Callahan and Ken Buss, now a senior member of the technical staff at TI, recall a meeting in Dallas at which the TI engineers proudly demonstrated the working circuits—only to have Polaroid ignore them and announce its new requirements. That made our chips instantly obsolete,” Buss said. At Fairchild, too, enthusiasm flagged.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. Mercury News criticized the “flashbulb effect” noticeable during the swimming event. It’s only sand.”

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Warren Buffett takes charge Warren Buffett hasnt just seen the car of the future, hes sitting in the drivers seat. "The good news is, hes 42 years old," Sokol says.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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. “In 25 years from now, millions of buildings … will be constructed to serve as both ‘power plants’ and habitats,&# says writer and economist Jeremy Rifkin, who has advised governments and corporations on tackling climate change and energy security. Email us directly at greeninc@nytimes.com. Staff Tom Zeller Jr.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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“There wasn’t a single tap-free telephone on the east side of New York,” professional wiretapper. News of the discovery made the front page of the New York Times a week later. Burlesque artist Ann Corio was among the celebrities targeted by an illegal wiretapping operation in New York City in 1955. Bettmann/Getty Images.