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The Boring Company’s skeptics need to calm down about the LVCC Loop

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One thing that Boring Company critics typically forget is the fact that the LVCC Loop’s tunnels are incredibly cheap and quick to build. It’s rarely brought up now, but The Boring Company was one of two companies that were shortlisted for the Las Vegas Convention Center transport system.

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Stopping Infection Outbreaks with AI and Big Data

Cars That Think

I mean, the beauty of EDS-HAT is that we are mining data elements that are present in basically all electronic health records. I was surprised by the result, but when you think about it, whole-genome sequencing is relatively cheap. Or could most hospitals start doing this right away? Lee Harrison Yeah. It’s really been a pleasure.

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

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Cheap pays off Although the Adobe group made some key technical breakthroughs, three other components were necessary to make PostScript a runaway success not just in low-volume professional publishing but in the high-volume office environment. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. Today, even Hewlett-Packard Co. 2, 1988, pp.

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

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This to-and-fro-ing went on for six months, whereas, said Michael Callahan, a senior TI design engineer who is presently executive vice president of engineering at Crystal Semiconductors Corp. Still, though the parts were not cheap, costing Fairchild approximately $20 or $30 each, they were manufacturable. To probe further.

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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. With the present disk drive, though, it is hard-pressed to lose its image as a toy. It’s only sand.”

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Well see how the masses respond when they are presented with the full reality of Chryslers first (?) I also think it will be cheap, which is why I think someone will buy the group. Motor Trend Magazine has extensive coverage of all cars online including road tests, free videos, buying guides, etc. fully electric car.

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

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation. At present, there are a number of ways of producing electricity. Well and good. There are other methods of course, but that will be explored in other postings.]

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