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Belching Volcano and Flowing Lava Dent Tourism in Icelandic Region

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And the low-cost Icelandic airline Play said that news of the eruption “cooled demand for Iceland as a destination.” The resort is particularly popular with visitors from the United States, and every year, hundreds of thousands of people visit the spa, according to the Blue Lagoon’s website.

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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

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She developed the geeRemit app to let people in the United States send money to people in sub-Saharan Africa. magazine included her on its 2020 Top 100 Female Founders list. During her trips back to the United States she sometimes transmitted money to Nairobi to pay bills, but the process wasn’t easy. “I

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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. Recordings were not limited to musical performances.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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Begun, who was likely something of a competitor to Pfleumer: Also a German, he had moved to the United States and developed a steel-based magnetic tape. Even though the consumer business had huge growth potential, 3M had little experience with a low-cost, low-profit-margin model. The invention was used by the U.S.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. “If Alamouti says tokens, enabled by distributed ledgers, could replace cash as a method of exchange, with low-cost transaction fees. Only people who hold the correct cryptographic keys can read the records.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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In 1977, he wrote an article for Kilobaud: The Small Computer Magazine describing the “Sublogic Three-Dimensional Micrographics Package” he had created, which brought 3D to microcomputers outfitted with the popular Motorola 6800 microprocessor. “It 1984) modeled the entire United States, Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. This was good training for Apple, for Mr. Jobs was intent on using such concepts to build a highly automated manufacturing plant for the Macintosh in the United States. less than a half-hour’s drive from Apple’s Cupertino headquarters.

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