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Why NPR Hates Electric Cars - A Greenius Expose

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Frank didn’t mention anything about the different cities like Portland and San Jose to name a couple who are building the first wave of plug in infrastructure. Greetings From Plugged-In San Jose. Tags: environment. Maybe Frank is in the dark on those. Plugging Plug-Ins, Part I. Plugging Plug-Ins, Part II.

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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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Yeah, I Got Your Chevy Volt, Right Here. Day 2 @ Plug-In 2009

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Luckily no one was really at Plug-In 2009 to hear the Three Car Stooges at this point, they don’t have any pleasant surprises in store for us. At the 2008 Plug-In Conference in San Jose, Coulomb had the charging game all to themselves, but they were one of half a dozen charging players at this year’s show.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye. San Jose, Calif., Cambridge, Mass.;

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

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Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books. With the help of David Evans of Evans & Sutherland and William Hambrecht of Hambrecht and Quist, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm, they wrote a business plan and incorporated in December of 1982. San Jose, Calif.,

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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In a recent review of the Summer Games, an Epyx sports game for the C-64, the San Jose, Calif. The freedom that allowed us to do the C-64 project will probably never exist again in that environment.” ?Postscript The succeeding eight locations store eight more pixels from the same eight lines [see figure].

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The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story

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With engineers from Intel’s CAD department, he developed a graphics-based circuit-simulation environment with which engineers entered simulation schematics including parasitic capacitance of devices and interconnections graphically rather than alphanumerically. and Convergent Technologies (San Jose, Calif.,

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