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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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Unifrax introduces Battery Advisory Board to support SiFAB silicon fiber anode battery technology

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SiFAB, a scalable proprietary silicon anode battery technology demonstrated in a number of applications, including electric vehicles, power tools, smartphones, personal computers, medical devices and aviation, can deliver up to a 20% increase in gravimetric energy density in lithium-ion batteries versus cells using a graphite anode.

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Video Friday: Monocycle Robot With Legs

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Unitree ] We present an avatar system designed to facilitate the embodiment of humanoid robots by human operators, validated through iCub3, a humanoid developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. GitHub ] via [ MIT ] This is one of those things that’s far more difficult than it might look. IHMC ] Thanks, Robert!

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This VW-partnered battery maker just pioneered a novel recycling process

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Photo: 24M Technologies MIT spinout and battery maker 24M Technologies today debuted a new direct-material battery recycling process for EV batteries and battery storage. 24 Technologies says the design, which it calls “SemiSolid” for its use of gooey electrodes, reduces production costs by up to 40%. Get started here. –

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Video Friday: Tap Finger, Move Mountain

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MIT CSAIL ] If you look in the background of this video, there’s a person wearing an exoskeleton controlling the robot in the foreground. Designed for domestic scenarios, it was born for the purpose of providing joyful companionship. Available for preorder now. Github ] Thanks, Kento! Weilan ] via [ ModernExpress ]

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ARPA-E to award $14.5M to 5 projects to reduce energy use for transportation

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TRANSNET project teams will design and test new network optimization approaches, coupled with novel transportation and mobility simulations, to improve the energy efficiency of personal transportation. Project teams will each design a system model that dynamically simulates an urban transportation network and its energy use.

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Testing Products for Consumer Reports

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At SMSC she was responsible for integrated circuit design, validation, and product engineering of silicon chips used in PCs. Her 30-person department specifies tests and develops the scoring and ratings, has roughly 30 people who work closely with the operations people in the lab, where the tests are executed.