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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster

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Sasson , inventor of the device, told The New York Times in 2015. “It Photos have become the universal form of casual conversation,” he said in a 2018 interview with The Institute. Although the CCDs could capture an image, they couldn’t store it. He designed it so each tape would store 30 images.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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Alcorn had majored in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, but had never played a video game before. At the time, video games were mostly the domain of research laboratories and universities. Hundreds of thousands of Pong sets were distributed through the department store Sears.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. MB of data.

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U Waterloo, GM R&D team develops new very high-performance silicon-sulfur-graphene electrode for Li-ion batteries

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Researchers from the University of Waterloo and General Motors Global Research and Development Center have developed a new electrode material for Li-ion batteries that leverages the strong covalent interactions that occur between silicon, sulfur, defects and nitrogen. —Hassan et al.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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In the United States, eighth graders scored an average of 271 out of 500 in math on last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress , as highlighted in a New York Times article. For students who want to practice their math skills at home, a monthly subscription of $24 to Prisms Math is available from the Meta Quest store.

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Challengers Are Coming for Nvidia’s Crown

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They made sure every computer-science major coming out of university is trained up and knows how to program CUDA ,” says Matt Kimball, principal data-center analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. They provide the tooling and the training, and they spend a lot of money on research.” Case in point: Microsoft’s Copilot Plus PCs.

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Berkeley Lab team directly probes solid/liquid interface of electrochemical double layer

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In 2015, Berkeley Lab researchers used AP-XPS to explore the electrochemical oxidation of the Pt electrode at an oxygen evolution reaction (OER) potential (Axnanda et al. ). —Hubert Gasteiger, a chemistry professor at the Technical University of Munich. Ross, Junko Yano, Zahid Hussain, Zhi Liu & Ethan J. Karlsson, Mårten O.

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