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Instruments were replaced with couches; the control room is now a walk-in closet.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026

Its two top holdings are chip companies Qualcomm and Texas Instruments.

From Barron's • Jun. 22, 2026

Fender Musical Instruments sent cease-and-desist letters to guitar builders, including PRS, to stop production of Strat-shaped guitars.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

He recalls his first time using a computer, navigating a pixelated “Donkey Kong” figure across the neon screen of a Texas Instruments machine.

From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026

Instruments of this general sort were common in the early seventeenth century, but Galileo’s were made especially for him and were perhaps the most sophisticated.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton