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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. I bought them from a junk store, and maybe paid $2 for them. In the mid-1950s, 3M advertised its Scotch audio reel-to-reel tape. inch floppy.

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Tesla patent outlines system to actively monitor improper seatbelt use

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One such example was demonstrated by Consumer Reports recently when the magazine decided to show exactly how drivers could trick Tesla’s Autopilot driver-monitoring systems. . Teslas are already safe to begin with, thanks to their all-electric design that gives them a low center of gravity and generous crumple zones.

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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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Jobs designed it to be a curved structure without a straight piece of glass. On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next." Focus on design. Good design is the hallmark of most Apple products. IEEE Spectrum article. It now can house 12,000 employees.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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Born in 1890 in Massachusetts, he came to prominence as the nation’s top designer of computers while at MIT In the 1930s. During World War II, as personal science and engineering adviser to President Roosevelt, he led all research by civilians for the military and organized the Manhattan Project.

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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. This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.” make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. However, Mr.

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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

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So, what is an assistive technology (AT), and who designs it? AT, in its most basic form, is anything that helps a person achieve enhanced performance, improved function, or accelerated access to information. Good UX design is universally desired, as it's needed for both optimal function and, often, ADA compliance.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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You said then that you wanted an artificial general intelligence to exist—in fact, you said it had always been your personal motivation for working in robotics and AI. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee? Didn’t at all.

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