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Stuart Parkin Revolutionized Disk Drive Storage

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For massive datasets to be of use, they must be stored somehow. Spintronics can make them more energy-efficient, faster to access data, or capable of storing huge amounts of information. Most of that time was spent at the company’s famed Almaden research laboratory, in San Jose, Calif. award for the discipline.

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IBM Almaden Lab Exploring Lithium-Air Batteries for Next-Generation Energy Storage

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Leveraging expertise in materials science, nanotechnology, green chemistry and supercomputing, scientists at IBM Research’s Almaden lab in San Jose, California, are undertaking a multi-year research initiative around a grid-scale, efficient, affordable electrical energy storage network. Adapted from Ogasawara et al. Click to enlarge.

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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. Intel designated him as one of its Fellows. Wireless innovator. in Burnaby.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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Any system he designed, he vowed, would have to have a “Print Anything” architecture. Those lessons learned, his group turned to expanding Gaffney’s little interpreter into a full programming system for computer-aided design (CAD). In 1977, that project was released by Evans & Sutherland as The Design System. “It

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Perspective: Europeans in the lead with range extenders for hybrid vehicles; 2nd vs. 3rd generation

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The company is also producing a US variant of the conference in San Jose, California in November. All that is dependent on progressing from internal combustion engines not designed for this purpose to engines optimized for use in hybrid power trains. There will be an investment session and an awards dinner.

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Rivian introduces two quad-motor, AWD “Electric Adventure Vehicles”

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This means having great driving dynamics on any surface on- or off-road, providing cargo solutions to easily store any type of gear, whether it’s a surf board or a fishing rod and, very importantly, being capable of driving long distances on a single charge. The battery is designed for fast charging with charging rates of up to 160kW.

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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Now designated the i860, it entered development in 1986 about the same time as the 80486, the yet-to-be-introduced successor to Intel’s highly regarded 80286 and 80386. He had been hoping to get started on a RISC microprocessor design ever since joining Intel in 1982. One man’s crusade The paper was not to stay blank for long.

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