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Calculating Commercial Vehicle Weight Distribution & Payload Made Easy

Green Fleet Magazine

Axle capacities are limited either by the axle capacity or the legal weight limits, whichever is lower. Performing a weight distribution analysis can achieve the proper axle loadings before a truck is built.

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GE VC Firms Announce $200M Open Innovation Challenge to Accelerate Power Grid Technology Through Open Collaboration

Green Car Congress

Select Challenge entrants will be offered the opportunity to develop a commercial relationship with GE through: Investment : the $200 million capital pledge of GE and its partners will be invested globally into promising start-ups and ideas. It is open to anyone aged 18 years or older and all legally formed entities.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

Cars That Think

During its brief heyday, thousands were built, leading to commercially assembled Galaksijas finding their way into homes and schools across the country. This helped greatly in keeping its component costs within the legal import limit, although the additional computing overhead did slow the Galaksija down significantly.

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

Cars That Think

The company has no patents to defend, only copyrights and trade secrets, so if other companies can reproduce Adobe’s technology, it has no legal recourse. s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) that preceded PostScript in the laboratory but followed it in the marketplace, is described in the June 1986 issue of IEEE’s magazine, Computer (pp.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

Cars That Think

The Mac’s success during the 1980s spurred Apple Computer to pursue legal action over ownership of many features of the graphical user interface. Suits now being litigated could assign those innovations not to the designers and their companies, but to those who first filed for legal protection on them. Santa Monica, Calif.,

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

Teaming up with Stanley Mazor and Federico Faggin, he created the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News. While a research manager at Intel Corp.,

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This Harvard Law Professor is an Expert on Digital Technology

Cars That Think

Using a hand-me-down television set as a monitor, and a dial-up modem, he connected the computer to CompuServe , one of the first commercial online service providers. “It Zittrain conducts research on what’s happening across the sweep of digital technology and writes about his findings in blogs, magazines, and books. copyrights.

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