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10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

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Check out our full write up —and personally I thought it was worth it just to play Spacewar! The heart of this replica is a Raspberry Pi running emulation software, so it can also double as a 1970 PDP-11 (and a home media server). with the original code!

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. “Electric vehicles could be connected to the grid and could store energy at times when too much is produced

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In 1926, TV Was Mechanical

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Early experiments used a dummy because the many incandescent lights needed to provide sufficient illumination made it too hot and bright for a person. In 1929, the BBC decided to give Baird’s system a try, performing some experimental broadcasts outside of normal hours. The image could be seen on a ground glass plate. As Donald F.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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May, 2007 : An international team of researchers concluded that the ability of the Southern Ocean to absorb carbon dioxide had slowed by about 15% per decade since 1981 ( earlier post ), and projected that at the present rate of deterioration, it will have lost two-thirds of its ability to store carbon by 2050.

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