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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next." Its physical design, the minimalist layout, the screen with playlists, and the easy-access buttons made it successful, and the iTunes store made it easier for people to discover and buy music and organize it into personal playlists.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

Folks here already know what’s going on with the environment and how EVs fit into the big picture.” We usually choose the grocery stores and malls that have installed chargers.” A guy with pictures of his car in hot rod magazines understands.” We show up at a parking lot and we’ll shoot the breeze.

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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. Alamouti, cofounder and executive board chairman of Mimik , in Oakland, 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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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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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. A later version of that tester, based on an Alto personal computer, also developed at PARC, ended up being used by Intel itself on its production line. Laser printers.

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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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Our lab, the Responsive Environments Group at MIT, has been working for well over a decade on embedding distributed sensor networks into flexible substrates. As the ISS orbits Earth, and the local space environment changes, we'll be triggering our sensors with known excitations to measure how their sensitivity varies over time.

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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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