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A Giant Game of Telephone: The Revel Tesla Model Y Taxi Situation Explained

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Each week I go ‘Beyond the News’ and handcraft a special edition that includes my thoughts on the biggest stories, why it matters, and how it could impact the future. The company has 50 Model Y taxis ready to take on the streets of Manhattan and the other boroughs of New York. In fact, this is true.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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VR headsets allow students to immerse themselves in realistic digital environments to learn math and science by solving real-world problems, such as calculating how high a house’s foundation should be raised to offset the risk of flooding. The startup received grants from the U.S. million students in the system’s 1,800 schools.

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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Estrin, a computer science professor at Cornell Tech , in New York City, founded the school’s Public Interest Tech Initiative to give students that opportunity. Known as the Genius Grant, the fellowship comes with a US $625,000 award, which Estrin used to help launch PiTech. The award is sponsored by IBM.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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But extending it to handle multiple networks—whose reliability couldn’t be taken for granted—was a different story. The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. arranged a visit to a Semi-Automatic Ground Environment computer center.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Networks that link personal computers in offices. The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” Laser printers. Nine came from the Berkeley Computer Corp.,

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Later, with Mazor and Faggin he filed for and was granted a patent for a “memory system for a multi-chip digital computer.”) In 1990, after numerous appeals and extensions, Hyatt was granted that patent and began collecting royalties from many microprocessor manufacturers. and New York City. Cambridge, Mass.;

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