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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. Nor was 3M the first company to popularize magnetic media— that was Ampex , which commercialized the tape recorder in the late 1940s.

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Intel to invest more than $250M over next two years in autonomous driving; “Data is the new oil”

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This is the first time Intel is keynoting at an automotive conference, signifying how critical the automotive market has become for the company. In his talk, Krzanich noted that in 2016, the average person generates 650MB of data a day through use of their PCs, mobile phones and wearables. Personal data. —Brian Krzanich.

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8 Products That Excel at Protecting Children’s Digital Privacy

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Learning Equality Kolibri The company provides access to educational content in a variety of languages and subject areas for preuniversity students living in areas that lack Internet access. The platform, which collects minimal data about the students, runs on low-cost and legacy devices. age-appropriate design code.

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An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python

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After Vic Wintriss sold his sports-imaging company, Wintriss Engineering , to his cofounders in 2006, the electrical engineer was looking for a project to keep himself busy. He retained professional programmers who volunteered their time to teach 90-minute weekly in-person and virtual classes seven days a week.

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Liquid Metal Battery Corp secures patent rights from MIT

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Liquid Metal Battery Corporation (LMBC), a Cambridge, Massachusetts company founded in 2010 to develop new forms of electric storage batteries that work in large, grid-scale applications, has secured the rights to key patent technology from MIT. Patents for all liquid metal battery inventions were licensed from MIT.

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

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It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. And the right person was Apple founder Steven Jobs, who invented the first, hoped for the second, and told Adobe to tough out the third. Evans & Sutherland had never produced anything as complex.

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BMW, Ford and Honda to create new company focused on optimizing EV grid services: ChargeScape

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BMW Group, Ford Motor Company and American Honda Motor Co., have entered into an agreement to create ChargeScape, LLC, a new equally-owned company that will create a single, cost-effective platform connecting electric utilities, automakers and interested electric vehicle customers.

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