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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.” 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. It appeared in the May 1988 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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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. After all, mainstream companies including IBM, TEAC , Toshiba , and, ultimately, Verbatim licensed Trek’s technology for their own memory stick devices. Seldom can we attribute inventions in digital technology to one individual or company.

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Build Your Own Hi-fi Ear Defenders

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Many of us have gotten used to being able to dampen unwanted sound, thanks to the noise-cancellation technology found in, for example, Apple’s AirPods Pro earbuds. My approach was to adapt an idea used in some pass-through systems, placing ambient microphones on the outside of sound-isolating headphones.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! The sense I’m getting is that Optimus isn’t as bad as people thought, but also, nobody [in the robotics community] is very impressed or surprised by any of the tech. The elephant in the room is the application ideas, which are frankly ridiculous. Animesh Garg.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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The experiment seemed to prove the feasibility of the technology. AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV. And with the revival of the EV, the V2G concept was reborn.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Rapid and pivotal advances in technology have a way of unsettling people, because they can reverberate mercilessly, sometimes, through business, employment, and cultural spheres. It’s a textbook example of the mixture of amazement and, especially, anxiety that often accompanies a tech triumph. And it’s really cheap.

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The Sneaky Standard

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It was essentially the same device on every platform, and yet, KoalaPad’s manufacturer, Koala Technologies, had to make five different versions of this device, with five different manufacturing processes, five different connectors, five different software packages, and a lot of overhead. and Chips & Technologies Inc. Cyrix Corp.

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