Although retrofitting against EMP is extremely expensive, engineering EMP resistance into a system from the beginning adds only about 1 percent to the system cost.

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Pacing around a room, they will talk for hours about future technologies such as voice recognition (they call their team working on it the "wreck a nice beach" group, because that's what invariably appears on the screen when someone speaks the phrase "recognize speech" into the system), then wander onto topics ranging from quantum physics to genetic engineering.

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"We've recently heard from many loyal Apple customers who were disappointed to learn that we had removed our products from the EPEAT rating system, " Apple's senior vice president for hardware engineering, Bob Mansfield, said in a statement.

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