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AUGUST 6, 2021

In an International Space Station major milestone more than fifteen years in the making, a long-delayed Russian science laboratory named Nauka automatically docked to the station on 29 July, prompting sighs of relief in the Mission Control Centers in Houston and Moscow. This is a guest post.

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JULY 2, 2023

Placing an Early Bet on the 68000 Chip The 68000 , with a 16-bit data bus and 32-bit internal registers and a 7.83-megahertz Briefly he considered building the plant in Texas, but since the designers were to work closely with the manufacturing team in the later stages of the Macintosh design, he decided to locate the plant at Fremont, Calif.,

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

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. Computer graphics artist Norm Cox, now of Cox & Hall, Dallas, Texas, was finally hired to redesign the icons.

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OCTOBER 8, 2022

The project was given the internal moniker “4004.” San Antonio, Texas, which, architected by Computer Terminals, was named the 8008. 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. San Jose, Calif.,

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APRIL 2, 2022

a subsidiary of Commodore International Ltd. We also examined the Texas Instruments 99/4A and the Atari 800. Another flaw is the computer’s crude internal software. Computer magazines such as Creative Computing and Compute! In January 1981, a handful of semiconductor engineers at MOS Technology in West Chester, Pa.,

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JUNE 4, 2022

There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970. Taylor’s Alto had a speaker—which played “The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You” whenever he received an electronic mail message.

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APRIL 21, 2023

He is a professor of international law at Harvard Law School , a professor of public policy at its Kennedy School , and a professor of computer science at the university’s John A. Zittrain conducts research on what’s happening across the sweep of digital technology and writes about his findings in blogs, magazines, and books.

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