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

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Back then, Warnock already had a rough idea how to “Print Anything.” The entrepreneurs in 1982 found Adobe a suitable name since the creek meandered near both their domes and, even more important, had none of the Qs, Xs, Ys, and Zs then popular with high-tech startups. It appeared in the May 1988 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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The concept behind V2G had gained traction in the late 1990s after California’s landmark zero-emission-vehicle (ZEV) mandate went into effect and compelled automakers to commercialize electric cars. A Test of Vehicle-to-Grid Tech By the turn of the millennium, however, selling EV propulsion systems had become a hard way to make a living.

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EV ute overload: The electric pickups coming soon

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Toyota Hilux hybrid Toyota Pickup EV is concept that shows Toyota’s idea of a battery electric ute Toyota has long been hinting at an EV version of the top-selling Hilux for years – with promises of at least 15 battery electric Toyotas due by 2030 – but it appears a hybrid version is more likely, at least initially.

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The Rise of Groupware

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Getty Images Some of the basic ideas behind groupware were first forged at the Stanford Research Institute by a Douglas Englebart–led team, in the 1960s, working on what they called an oN-Line System (NLS). But it took the tech giant a very long while to get there: Microsoft started taking the market seriously only around 1992.

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Power Electric Scooter Buyers Guide | 2022

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Localization of 70% ​ Jitendra New EV Tech - JMT 100HS The Parent company of the Jitendra brand is Shah Group. They have a large automotive experience with dealerships of Mahindra Trucks, Commercial vehicles and more. Many scooter companies provide a cheap GPS tracker and call themselves a connected scooter.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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Corporate Cash The idea of private digital currencies goes back to at least 1994, when the late Edward de Bono wrote of the “IBM dollar.” Part of the pitch for a private digital currency could be offering people in these communities access to cheap, secure financial services. dollar—and hence to the U.S.

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The Sneaky Standard

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Commercial - Intel Inside Pentium Processor (1994) www.youtube.com Embracing standards: the computing industry’s gift to itself In the 1980s, when you used the likes of an Apple II or a Commodore 64 or an MS-DOS machine, you were essentially locked into an ecosystem. And some are as cheap as high-end PCs. So how did we get it?

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