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

Cars That Think

Any system he designed, he vowed, would have to have a “Print Anything” architecture. It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. In 1977, that project was released by Evans & Sutherland as The Design System. “It of Cupertino, Calif.)

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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His Vodafone team worked on technologies that would limit the use of personal data for advertising and “eyeball-grabbing, because they are very disruptive and can incentivize the spread of disinformation. Alamouti says tokens, enabled by distributed ledgers, could replace cash as a method of exchange, with low-cost transaction fees.

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National Low Carbon Fuel Standard study releases major Technical Analysis and Policy Design reports; providing a scientific basis for policy decisions

Green Car Congress

The National Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Project has released two major reports that synthesize its findings from the past several years of work: a Technical Analysis Report (TAR) and Policy Design Recommendations. We did not shy away from controversy. We are not advocates.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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Mice, windows, icons, and menus: these are the ingredients of computer interfaces designed to be easy to grasp, simplicity itself to use, and straightforward to describe. This article was first published as “Of Mice and menus: designing the user-friendly interface.” In 1984, the low-cost Macintosh from Apple Computer Inc.,

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. The Busicom engineers had no interest in dumping their design in favor of Hoff’s unproved proposal. But Hoff, with Noyce’s blessing, started working on the project.

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