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Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That’s when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the ...

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This technology aims to address the challenges of aging effects associated with LEDs. Texas Instruments (TI) has unveiled a new portfolio of signal isolation semiconductors known as opto-emulators ...