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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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Audio Magazine/Internet Archive /Scotch As Smithsonian Magazine notes , the formulation he developed, combining cabinetmaker’s glue with glycerin, proved to be just the right level of easy-to-remove adhesive that it became an out-and-out phenomenon. I bought them from a junk store, and maybe paid $2 for them. inch floppy.

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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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Jobs also redefined what a high-tech corporate campus should look like, according to a 2011. One of the final products he pitched was Apple Park , the company's corporate campus in Cupertino, Calif. On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next." IEEE Spectrum article.

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What's the matter with Costco?

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Costco's own magazine proudly reported in 2006, just as the film was being released, that 64 stores had a total of 90 charge stations. It has been reported that some store managers would rather not be removing chargers right when we see plug-in cars coming to market.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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A decentralized cloud would minimize the need to use third-party services to manage and store data on people and business enterprises. The HEC can allow consumers to better control how their data is stored, shared, and monetized, Alamouti says. Alamouti, cofounder and executive board chairman of Mimik , in Oakland, Calif.,

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How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet

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I’ve enjoyed reading magazine articles about Ethernet’s 50th anniversary, including one in the The Institute. A solution emerges I thought that a better approach than either FDDI or a faster version of Ethernet would be to develop a LAN technology that performed store-and-forward switching.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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That is, PHEVLERs can store electricity whenever sun and wind-generated electricity is plentiful, and then can send stored power back into the smart grid at times when more electric power is needed. 23 ] Bringing up the throttle on cellulosic ethanol - Ethanol Producer Magazine 16 March 2016. [

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How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper

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Electronic-ink researchers had been pursuing color e-paper for years, as had other researchers around the world, in universities, corporate research labs, and startups. They came up with some early products that targeted shelf labels for brick-and-mortar retail stores and also for signage.

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