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New York City adding 70 electric vehicles to fleet; launches EV educational push

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The City is also collaborating with the cities of Boston and Philadelphia as part of the Northeast Regional Electric Vehicle Partnership to improve conditions for electric vehicles and alleviate barriers to early electric vehicle adoption through low-cost, high-impact actions.

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

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When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. began buying used copiers from Xerox’s copier division and installing laser heads in them. and Toronto, Ont., Mountain View, Calif.—began Palo Alto, Calif.,

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Subscribers whose phones were tapped at the time of the raid included a range of New York commercial interests, with assets both large and small: a modeling agency and an insurance company; an art gallery and a lead mining company; and perhaps most sensationally, two publicly traded pharmaceutical corporations with competing patent interests.