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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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Jobs designed it to be a curved structure without a straight piece of glass. On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next." Focus on design. Good design is the hallmark of most Apple products. IEEE Spectrum article. It now can house 12,000 employees.

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New Elon Musk essay: Tesla CEO’s current thoughts on technology and humanity

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The new Elon Musk essay was published in China Cyberspace , the Cyberspace Administration of China’s (CAC) flagship magazine. In a way, the publication of the new Elon Musk essay in the CAC’s flagship magazine is significant. Thank you for the invitation from China Cyberspace magazine. Posted by Elon Musk.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.” The author spoke with many members of the design team in the months following the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh, however, Steve Jobs did not grant an interview for this article. It appeared in the December 1984 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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Any system he designed, he vowed, would have to have a “Print Anything” architecture. Those lessons learned, his group turned to expanding Gaffney’s little interpreter into a full programming system for computer-aided design (CAD). In 1977, that project was released by Evans & Sutherland as The Design System. “It

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Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

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Today, some 350 organizations in 48 countries are designing, building, or flying eVTOLs, according to the Vertical Flight Society. Today, some 350 organizations in 48 countries are designing, building, or flying eVTOLs, according to the Vertical Flight Society. Designing an eVTOL from first principles.

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How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper

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They came up with some early products that targeted shelf labels for brick-and-mortar retail stores and also for signage. Over the years, researchers tried several approaches, some taking technologies from more traditional displays, others evolving from the original e-paper’s unique design. Designing them is as much art as science.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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I don’t really enjoy driving, so when I see these pictures from popular magazines in the 1950s of people sitting in bubble-dome cars, facing each other, four people enjoying themselves playing cards on the highway, count me in. You buy stuff at home, expect it to be delivered to your home. Brooks: Absolutely. COVID accelerated that.

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