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SpaceX and Dish’s Super-Shady War for the World

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Or—given the outsize personalities involved (including Elon Musk and Michael Dell) and the epic, five-year duration of the dispute to date—maybe more like a space opera. Meanwhile Starlink wants to open its satellite show in further-flung places, seeking to open gateways in the United Kingdom. Which means pretty much everywhere.

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Tech Leaders on 5G, Robots, and the Future of Work

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Trying to maintain strong cybersecurity for a hybrid workforce and protecting their systems from cyberattacks as more and more employees’ personal devices have been connected to the company’s systems. What are today’s tech leaders concerned about? The tech leaders also are trying to find enough technologists to fill job openings.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear. It was called the ThumbDrive. MB of data.

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Leading the Way for More LGBTQ Inclusivity in STEM

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After graduating in 2005 from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi , with a doctorate in physics, Agrawal decided to move to the United Kingdom. “I It provides women of color a safe space to connect with each other. The campaign grew to include hosting panels on DEI policies at conferences and holding leadership training.

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Your Robotic Avatar Is Almost Ready

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In 2018 , the XPrize Foundation announced a competition (sponsored by the Japanese airline ANA) to create “an avatar system that can transport human presence to a remote location in real time,” with the goal of developing robotic systems that could be used by humans to interact with the world anywhere with a decent Internet connection.

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The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

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Complex logic circuits could be implemented by connecting such cores together in various arrangements. For example, engineers at Ferranti , in the United Kingdom, developed magnetic - amplifier circuits for their computers. As late as 1957, more than 400 engineers attended a conference on magnetic amplifiers.

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