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Stanford R. Ovshinsky Dies at 89, a Self-Taught Maverick in Electronics – New York Times


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Stanford R. Ovshinsky Dies at 89, a Self-Taught Maverick in Electronics
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Stanford R. Ovshinsky, an iconoclastic, largely self-taught and commercially successful scientist who invented the nickel-metal hydride battery and contributed to the development of a host of devices, including solar energy panels, flat-panel displays …
Stan Ovshinsky, inventor of a battery used in hybrid cars, dies in Detroit …Washington Post
Stanford Ovshinsky, whose inventions led to flat-screen TVs and the Toyota …GlobalPost
Stanford Ovshinsky man of sustainable power and memory has passedExaminer.com
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Worries Over Defense Dept. Money for ‘Hackerspaces’ (Amy O’Leary/New York Times)

Amy O’Leary / New York Times:
Worries Over Defense Dept. Money for ‘Hackerspaces’  —  This fall, 16 high schools in California started experimental workshops, billed as a kind of “shop class for the 21st century,” that were financed by the federal government.  And over the next three years, the $ 10 million program plans …

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In a Big Network of Computers, Evidence of Machine Learning (John Markoff/New York Times)

John Markoff / New York Times:
In a Big Network of Computers, Evidence of Machine Learning  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Inside Google’s secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several years ago on a simulation of the human brain.

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Is This Really the Golden Age for Inventors? – New York Times

Sure, the Internet and other tools have made the inventing process easier; but the entrepreneurial landscape hardly seems dominated by small inventors. Actually, the new-idea supply chain has some considerable rough patches that, in many ways …
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Valentine’s Day apps that can help wow a sweetheart — and mend a broken heart  – New York Daily News

There’s … a bunch of apps for that. While paperless cards aren’t exactly a new invention (we can’t wait to see what someecards has to snark at us today!), Paperless Post (www.paperlesspost.com) not only offers the ability to make one …
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The Man Who Inspired Jobs (Christopher Bonanos/New York Times)

Christopher Bonanos / New York Times:
The Man Who Inspired Jobs  —  IN the memorials to Steven P. Jobs this week, Apple’s co-founder was compared with the world’s great inventor-entrepreneurs: Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell.  Yet virtually none of the obituaries mentioned the man Jobs himself considered his hero …

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