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

Cars That Think

The entrepreneurs in 1982 found Adobe a suitable name since the creek meandered near both their domes and, even more important, had none of the Qs, Xs, Ys, and Zs then popular with high-tech startups. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. Today, even Hewlett-Packard Co. What’s NeXT?

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995. Tan had filed a patent application for his invention a month before the 2000 CeBIT tech fair, but a pending patent did little to stop copycats.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer for CNETs Green Tech blog. Reddit Recent posts from Green Tech EPA calls greenhouse gases a public threat U.S. Reddit Recent posts from Green Tech EPA calls greenhouse gases a public threat U.S. Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

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