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1) Smart Soles
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A new electronic type of shoe soles can serve to improve the records of athletes and the quality of life of pregnant women.
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March 1990: American-led forces assemble in Saudi Arabia for "Desert Storm", the largest military operation since the Normandy Invasion. Meanwhile, across the globe in Massachusetts, in a former textile mill that's been converted to the home of legendary computer company Digital Microsystems, computer chip designer Todd Griffith is working past dark during a late winter snowstorm, trying to find out why his "Kali" chip keeps randomly messing up. After...
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One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023
The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world's most critical resources—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is "pulse quickening...a nonfiction thriller" (The New York Times).
You may be surprised to learn that microchips...
The Financial Times Business Book of the Year, this epic account of the decades-long battle to control one of the world's most critical resources—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in fierce competition is "pulse quickening...a nonfiction thriller" (The New York Times).
You may be surprised to learn that microchips...
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Radar was more discovered than invented. In the course of transmitting radio waves during World War II, technicians noticed that large objects reflected their signals. If not for radar technology Hitler might have conquered England, which would have drastically changed the history of the country, the European continent, and the world.
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Silicon Valley is one of the world's most powerful regions: A region that holds more knowledge, power and money than Washington, Wall Street or Brussels. And it is here that a digital revolution is being coded that is shaping our lives at every possible level. This revolution is designed by a new order of programmers, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists from Silicon Valley. It's these people who have the knowledge, the networks and the money. Always...
12) Silicon Valley
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Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the personal computer revolution, changing the way the world works, plays, and communicates. Noyce's invention of the microchip ultimately re-shaped the future, launching the world into the Information Age.