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After 50 Years, Digital Voices Speak Again

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Instead, they were encoded in the grooves of a phonograph record bound inside the magazine. Due to their low cost, thin form factor, and pliability, flexi discs became the medium of choice for magazine publishers who wished to supplement articles with audio content. Joseph Campanella, and A.J.

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SMART: working for a systems-based approach to sustainable mobility; Alcoa Foundation support for practical solutions in Beijing and Detroit

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SMART is focusing on global urban regions, and has identified five “themes” that fill unaddressed gaps and guide and inform the program’s collaborative research, pilot projects, and education activities. The initiative, which funds 10 global sustainability research projects in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Russia and the United States.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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He credited their winged invention as “the World Wide Web of that era,” one that shifted the world into a global perspective. In September of 1982, Computer Gaming World magazine ranked Flight Simulator as the fourth best-selling title to date. In 1999 Bill Gates penned a moving tribute to the Wright brothers. Artwick was right.

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