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The original Macintosh keyboard was not missing arrow keys by accident. When Apple put the Macintosh on sale on January 24, 1984, the machine arrived with a compact beige keyboard that had no cursor arrows, no function-key row, and no built-in numeric keypad. For a computer that was supposed to sell the public on a graphical interface and a mouse, that absence was part of the point. Steve Jobs wanted the Macintosh to feel like a clean break from the command-heavy machines around it. In a 1985 Playboy interview about the Macintosh and the mouse, he argued that pointing was…
Investors are cheering the idea that Intel could serve as a backup chip manufacturer for Nvidia and Google.
Joe Sutter’s Boeing team began shaping the 747 around a future they thought would pass it by: a supersonic age in which the huge, slower jumbo would eventually make its real living as a freighter. That assumption is why the cockpit sits on a hump. By lifting the flight deck above the main deck, Boeing left room for a nose that could swing upward on freighter versions of the airplane, letting cargo loaders feed pallets and outsized freight straight into the long tube of the fuselage. Every passenger lounge, every Pan Am poster, every 747-8F still hauling cargo at night…
For Elon Musk’s ambitious Terafab project in Texas to be successful, Musk is going to need lots of ASML’s industry-leading lithography machines.
On the morning of July 27, 1866, the SS Great Eastern dropped anchor in Heart’s Content, Newfoundland, with 1,686 nautical miles of insulated copper cable trailing behind her across the floor of the North Atlantic. The cable’s other end sat in Valentia, Ireland. Within hours, an operator was tapping out test signals that crossed to London in minutes. The same news, sent by the fastest mail steamer of the era, would have taken roughly ten days. The ship was a leviathan. Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, she displaced more than 32,000 tons and was the only vessel afloat large enough…
When you were a kid, did you ever dream of growing up to be someone’s exit liquidity? Probably not. But every time you buy shares in a company IPO, that’s exactly what you become. Whether being an early investor’s exit liquidity is good or bad is hard to say in the short run. In the long run, you will certainly find out. The main reason I’ve been investing a greater percentage of my capital in private companies over the past 20 years is because private companies are staying private for longer. More of the gains are accruing to private investors…
Key Points“Demonstrated financial need” is not a fixed federal number: each college decides what your need is and what counts as aid to meet it, and the answer can swing by tens of thousands of dollars between schools.Many schools that say they “meet need” do so with student loans, work-study, and Parent PLUS loans packaged alongside grants, leaving families with debt.One study identified 41 universities that collectively spent $2.4 billion of their own aid on students with no demonstrated need, while pushing low-income families into a Parent PLUS debt. When a college tells a family it will “meet 100% of…
Masahiro Hara was trying to make a factory scanner read faster when his team at Denso built the QR code in 1994, a black-and-white square that could hold far more information than a barcode and still be read when it was dirty, tilted, or partly damaged. The problem sounded small because it belonged to an assembly line. Toyota-linked factories were handling more parts, more variants, and more tracking data than a strip of vertical barcode lines could comfortably carry. Two years of development later, Hara’s team had a code that could be read from any direction and packed data both…
It has remained a top choice among Americans trying to lose weight even after the launch of Foundayo, Eli Lilly’s GLP-1 pill.
Christopher Latham Sholes patented the layout that now sits under the thumbs of nearly every smartphone owner on Earth in 1878, and he did it in a Milwaukee workshop while trying to stop slender metal arms from tangling together inside a machine called the Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer. The arms were called typebars. When two of them next to each other swung up at nearly the same instant, they would clash mid-air and freeze the carriage. Sholes’s fix was to scatter the most common letter pairs across the keyboard so that adjacent typebars rarely fired in sequence. The original prototypes…