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Powered By IEEE Program Saves Startups Money

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Running a startup isn't cheap. Elijah says access to journals and magazines in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library is helping him keep up to date on advances in his field. LIFE SCIENCES DATA RESEARCH Joanne Wong launched SciosHub in 2020 to improve the data management, performance, and costs of conducting research in life sciences.

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The Boring Company’s skeptics need to calm down about the LVCC Loop

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One thing that Boring Company critics typically forget is the fact that the LVCC Loop’s tunnels are incredibly cheap and quick to build. Machines such as Prufrock, and the incredibly low cost of its tunnels, are The Boring Company’s true disruption. . This is incredibly impressive considering that Godot+ is no slouch.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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Moore is best known for his 1965 prediction, which would become known as Moore’s Law : the observation that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would grow exponentially while the retail cost of computers would decrease. His projection came true over the decade that followed.

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Stopping Infection Outbreaks with AI and Big Data

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I was surprised by the result, but when you think about it, whole-genome sequencing is relatively cheap. So you don’t have to prevent very many infections to pay for all the costs of running the system. And the other thing that we found is that it has the potential to save hospitals money. It’s really been a pleasure.

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

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Still, though the parts were not cheap, costing Fairchild approximately $20 or $30 each, they were manufacturable. But the manufacturing engineers pressed on, since the cost of the product had to be reduced by three-quarters or more to meet Polaroid’s price target, and contract negotiations were to be reopened for 1974.

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A Cheapskate in Monterey

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“For the last five years, some of our leading chefs have abandoned fine dining and opened artisanal food businesses,” said Deborah Luhrman, the editor and publisher of the food magazine Edible Monterey Bay , who recommended both bakeries. Even getting there comes at a price: 17-Mile Drive , the coastal scenic route, costs $12 to drive.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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The cost of developing the Commodore 64: No one knows. The cost of developing the Commodore 64: No one knows. “I You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said.

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