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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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One way teachers are trying to help students grasp difficult concepts is through virtual-reality technology. The San Francisco–based company helps educators teach math to preuniversity students. Black, Native American, and low-income students had particularly low math scores on the federal standardized test.

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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. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

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Volkswagen’s MEB for EVs: long electric range, open-platform, open-space, pricing for the volume market; “tablet on wheels”

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concept shown this year at the Paris show ( earlier post ), will—with a range of up to 373 miles and a market introduction in 2020—be priced approximately at the level of a diesel Golf—before any subsidies. and the underlying MEB emphasize several additional functionalities: autonomy, connectivity, and personalization.

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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. Some of these real-world offspring, like the Apple Lisa computer and the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer, took many of their root concepts from PARC; others, like the Ada computer language and the Intel 1103 dynamic RAM chip, are less closely related. Laser printers. Frame buffer.

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U.S. Commercial Drone Delivery Comes Closer

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One that I’m personally really excited about is supporting these genetic diversity campaigns. One of our partners we work with, we can deliver over 80 percent of what they have in their big box store. And that’s a lot of the world out here in California, that’s most of San Francisco. And volume, it’s big.

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Audi e-tron premium electric SUV debuts; starting at $74,800 in US; delivery Q2 2019; reservations open

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Audi unveiled its all-electric Audi e-tron mid-size SUV—its first fully electric production model—in an event in San Francisco. Their sophisticated cooling concept is designed to keep the temperature level low. The battery operates with a nominal voltage of 396 volts and stores 95 kWh of energy.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. When you have one person designing the whole computer, he knows that a little leftover gate in one part may be used in another part.” It’ll never work.’

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