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Quizlet made its first acquisition in March 2021, with the purchase of Slader, which offered detailed explanations of textbook concepts and practice problems, and eventually incorporated it into its paid platform, Quizlet Plus. [20] [21] [22] In November 2022, Quizlet announced a new CEO, Lex Bayer, the former CEO of Starship Technologies. [23]
September 1 – While waiting at a bus stop Ralph Baer, an inventor with Sanders Associates, writes a four-page document that lays out the basic principles for creating a video game to be played on a television: the beginning of a multibillion-dollar industry.
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I invented an automated system with an encrypted card and a pin number, and that's the one that is used around the world today," he said. [4] Despite being appointed an OBE in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours for his invention of the personal identification number, [ 7 ] Goodfellow has publicly commented on the lack of recognition and ...
The constellation for which the project was named is commonly pronounced / ˈ dʒ ɛ m ɪ n aɪ /, the last syllable rhyming with eye.However, staff of the Manned Spacecraft Center, including the astronauts, tended to pronounce the name / ˈ dʒ ɛ m ɪ n i /, rhyming with knee.
October 1 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with 18 fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles (8.9 km) south of Wemme, Oregon, the first loss of a DC-9. [36] October 3 – Tunisia severs diplomatic relations with the United Arab Republic. October 4. Israel applies for membership in the European Economic Community, which is never granted.
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The history of computing hardware starting at 1960 is marked by the conversion from vacuum tube to solid-state devices such as transistors and then integrated circuit (IC) chips. Around 1953 to 1959, discrete transistors started being considered sufficiently reliable and economical that they made further vacuum tube computers uncompetitive.