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DOE announces Apps for Vehicles Challenge Winners

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DOE awarded New York City-based Dash the Judges’ Prize and MyCarma , headquartered in Troy, Michigan, the Popular Choice prize. The competition asked app developers and entrepreneurs to demonstrate how the open data available on most vehicles can be used to improve vehicle safety, fuel efficiency and comfort.

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Noodoe EV Opens New Headquarters in Houston

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According to Fortune magazine, Houston has become a major corporate center, home to 23 Fortune 500 companies, second only to New York City. As one business group noted, “Houston connects companies to the world.”

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When They Electrified Christmas

Cars That Think

debuted electric Christmas lights when he lit up 80 hand-wired bulbs on a tree in the parlor of his New York City home. advertised "Winking Fairy Lights for Christmas Trees" in Hardware Dealers' Magazine. Over his long career, he studied the spectra of 50 elements, establishing international standards for measurement.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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By the beginning of the 21st century, South Korea had become a dominant power in the global semiconductor market, meeting more than 60 percent of international demand for memory chips alone. He studied at Seoul National University and then at Columbia University, in New York City, where he earned his doctorate under.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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In 1964, Douglas Engelbart , a research project leader at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., Simple pads on the bottom of the case carried the weight, and optical scanners detected the motion of the internal wheels. 12, 1989, PC Magazine contains six articles on graphical user interfaces for personal computers and workstations.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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The project was given the internal moniker “4004.” In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News. and New York City. San Jose, Calif., You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Burlesque artist Ann Corio was among the celebrities targeted by an illegal wiretapping operation in New York City in 1955. New York City private investigator and attorney John G. But at the time, the story was plausible enough to occasion internal handwringing among Bell system providers.