When Japan’s trade ministry put the PlayStation 2 under export control in April 2000, its 6.2-gigaflop hardware was considered adaptable for missile guidance, briefly forcing anyone exporting more than one console to seek government approval Saving Tips July 24, 2026 In April 2000, taking two PlayStation 2 consoles out of Japan could require government paperwork normally associated with technology that…
When the U.S. military finally deployed frequency-hopping spread spectrum on Navy ships during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis blockade, the patent that described the technique had expired three years earlier, and its inventor was watching the news in a Los Angeles bungalow without any idea her idea was at sea. Saving Tips June 1, 2026 On August 11, 1942, the U.S. Patent Office granted Patent No. 2,292,387 for a “Secret Communication System” to two inventors…
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