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Stellantis Limiting Availability of Gasoline Models by State Emission Rules

The Truth About Cars

Dealers in the CARB states worry they'll be at a disadvantage if consumers start crossing state lines to buy gasoline vehicles from another store's inventory rather than wait for a factory order. Some are working to trade for gasoline vehicles with stores in adjacent states. "I Expect to see surging Jeep 4xe sales.

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

Cars That Think

They were not widely used, but for some reason the surplus store had a big box of them. We were invited out to Hasbro corporate headquarters in Rhode Island to give a presentation to the engineering team about what we could do. Ted Larson at Hasbro HQ in Rhode Island. in 2005 with Hasbro as our first customer.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. When you have one person designing the whole computer, he knows that a little leftover gate in one part may be used in another part.” It’ll never work.’

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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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In the 1960s, the software for the Apollo guidance computer was stored in a woven substrate called core rope memory. We have also worked with the Rhode Island School of Design on fabric manufacturing. This skin, the boundary of person and the demarcation of place, is real estate ripe for use.

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