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Industry-Leading Automotive Connectivity Solutions and Extensive Engineering Expertise

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by TE Connectivity. In the fast-moving automotive industry, consumer expectations are evolving just as quickly as the technologies and solutions that shape vehicle design. Using our customer-centric engineering expertise, we’ll help you tackle even your most complex design challenges.

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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. Raskin’s proposal did not impress anyone at Apple Computer enough to bring much money from the board of directors or much respect from Apple engineers. However, Mr.

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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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To this day, Bush’s article—titled “As We May Think”—and his subsequent elaborations of networked information appliances are credited with shaping what would become the personal computer and the World Wide Web. The Atlantic Monthly And yet, if you watched this year’s Oscar-winning Oppenheimer , Bush is only a minor character.

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Electric three-wheelers design for handicapped persons 

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Electric three-wheelers design for handicapped persons . Here in this article, we will be discussing all-electric three-wheelers (autos) designs especially for handicapped people which means it can also be run by a handicapped person or handicapped user-friendly vehicle. Electric three-wheelers for handicapped.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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This article was first published as "The battle for the SX-70." The motor control module contained a linear control IC, an NPN motor drive transistor, and a discrete PNP dynamic braking transistor, and gave the designers little trouble. To Polaroid the approach looked risky, but its engineers were excited by its possibilities.

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Building a Fleet of Personal EVs in Kenya

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A key person involved in the critical tasks of assembling, servicing, and testing the company’s vehicles and related products is Magdalene Maluta. Working with electric vehicles requires mechanical and engineering expertise. When we do maintenance or service on one, I test each vehicle’s performance personally,” she says.

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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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Discussions at chip design conferences rarely get heated. But a year ago at the International Symposium on Physical Design , things got out of hand. The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms. Wash, rinse, repeat.

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