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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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While software on its own doesn’t release any emissions, it runs on hardware in data centers and steers data through transmission networks, which account for about 1 percent of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions each. In December 2023, representatives from nearly 200 countries gathered in Dubai for COP28, the U.N.’s

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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PARC is one of three research centers within Xerox; the other two are in Webster, N.Y., When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. and Toronto, Ont., The originator of that phrase is unclear.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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By the age of 12 he had moved on to electronics, building things with parts ordered from an Allied Radio Catalog, a shortwave radio kit, and surplus relays and motors salvaged from the garbage at his father’s employer, General Railway Signal Co., He had a toy train moving back and forth under computer control, balancing a broom­ stick.

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