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Q&A With Co-Creator of the 6502 Processor

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The processors and their variants are used as microcontrollers in commercial products, and they remain popular among hobbyists who build home-brewed computers. Bill Mensch: I went to Temple University [in Philadelphia] on the recommendation of a guidance counselor. And lower cost was key. We knew what we were doing.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. The list of supporters/partners now includes links to the members’ web sites along with a contact person. Keene, N.H., Santa Barbara, CA.,

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Maersk and IBM launch TradeLens blockchain shipping solution; 154+ million shipping events already captured on platform

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One example demonstrated how TradeLens can reduce the transit time of a shipment of packaging materials to a production line in the United States by 40%, avoiding thousands of dollars in cost. TradeLens is expected to be fully commercially available by the end of this year.

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How Roboticists Can Tackle Climate Change

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SS MAPR prepares for its maiden voyage on the Schuylkill River, in Philadelphia. My personal experience confirmed those observations. Energy sources like solar and wind are already cost competitive compared with fossil fuel. I want to build more robots that improve the environment we live in.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Laser printers.

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Hyperloop: An Engineering Marvel or An Elite Day Dream

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Electric skates can transport eight to sixteen persons or a single-passenger vehicle. We already discussed the cost of building a hyperloop but haven’t discussed the price we have to pay. Hyperloop: How Much Do The Tickets Cost? ” Now the real question. What About The Profit? Hyperloop: Who Are The Main Players?

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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The ICCC would prove to be for packet switching what the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia was for the telephone : the public unveiling of what would eventually lead to a technological discontinuity. One major problem was the cost and fragility of stringing a dedicated cable from every computer to every terminal.

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