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Elon Musk pledges to make things right after Tesla leaves small bakery with unpaid order

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has personally pledged to correct a mistake from the electric vehicle maker that left a small business in San Jose in a tricky situation. As per a Kron4 report, Voahangy Rasetarinera of The Giving Pies bakery in San Jose posted about her experience with the electric vehicle maker on social media.

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Best speakers ever

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We filled the place, which had a 225-person capacity,” said Jerry Pohorsky, another former EVA board member who has served as EAASV chapter president for 11 of the past 13 years. “It Chapter member Ian Wright cofounded Tesla then later founded Wrightspeed, a company that built large hybrid trucks in San Jose.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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His Vodafone team worked on technologies that would limit the use of personal data for advertising and “eyeball-grabbing, because they are very disruptive and can incentivize the spread of disinformation. After AT&T, he helped companies develop chips for 3G and Wi-Fi at Cadence Design Systems , in San Jose, Calif.

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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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The Unsung Inventor Who Chased the LED Rainbow

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San Jose, Calif. Soon, in 1974, he was bumped up again to technology director, and moved from Monsanto’s corporate headquarters in St. Shrug when you spot the plastic taped over a few of the mirrors to obstruct that view. Go to the heart of this labyrinth and there find M. IEEE Spectrum.

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

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We bought a booth at the first RoboNexus trade show held in San Jose in 2004. We were invited out to Hasbro corporate headquarters in Rhode Island to give a presentation to the engineering team about what we could do. for “Automated Music Personality,” or AMPbot for short. The product was to be named A.M.P.,

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising. At a meeting of Charpentier, Winterble, and Tramiel, the decision was made to go for a personal computer. It’s a personal challenge. I personally had to play the heavy on a lot of stuff,” he said.

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