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    February 2024
    Charging Station “Usage Taxes” Could Slow the Growth of EVs

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    Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

    ­A sensible way to preserve tax revenues or a barrier to progress? That’s the question plaguing Kentuckians, as the Bluegrass State has enacted a use tax on public EV charging stations. EVs and hybrids will help fulfill a number of environmental goals, reducing fossil fuel consumption and cutting emissions. But
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    Date:
    02/06/2024
    Nexperia Announces Wide-Bandgap Plans

    Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

    A few months ago, in my weekly TechTalk newsletter I wrote about the 20th anniversary of Nexperia’s LFPAK technology. At the time of its introduction, the new packaging was revolutionary and offered many advantages to designers. For example, instead of bonding wires, the technique used copper clips to provide a
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    Date:
    02/01/2024
    Is the Turing Test Still Relevant?

    Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

    South Park recently did an episode with a co-writer’s credit for ChatGPT (bear with me), and it did a great job summarizing the inscrutable nature of artificial intelligence and, with some minor extrapolation, why the Turing Test needs to evolve. On the famously topical show, the kids use ChatGPT to answer text messa
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    Date:
    02/01/2024
    Archive

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    Mar 1,2026
    Jason Lomberg, North America Editor, PSD

    AI and Brainrot Slop is Taking Over Social Media

    Feb 1,2026
    Jason Lomberg, North America Editor, PSD

    Putting the Na-ion in Nation

    Jan 1,2026
    Ally Winning, European Editor, PSD

    Does the “Uncanny Valley” Hide the True Danger of Generative AI?

    Dec 1,2025
    Jason Lomberg, North America Editor, PSD

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