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Used Car of the Day: 2002 Acura RSX Type-S

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Today's UCOTD speaks to my personal biases -- I have a weird thing for the Acura RSX. Even this beat-up 2002 Acura RSX Type-S catches my eye. The car has been in storage for three years, so it will need some work to get running. But it does have the six-speed manual transmission and just 78,000 miles.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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Study finds association of pollution with increased risk of psychiatric disorders

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For the US cohort, the team studied 4 psychiatric and 2 neurological conditions: bipolar disorder, major depression, personality disorder, schizophrenia, epilepsy, and Parkinson disease. For the Danish cohort, the team studied study 4 psychiatric disorders: bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorder, and depression.

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NTSB recommends nationwide ban on personal electronic devices while driving; also calls for modifications to the equipment and the completion of a NHTSA rulemaking on collision warning systems

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Following a Board meeting on a 2010 multi-vehicle highway accident in Gray Summit, Missouri, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) called for the first-ever nationwide ban on driver use of personal electronic devices (PEDs) while operating a motor vehicle. The accident resulted in 11 fatalities. Globally, there are 5.3

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2024 Lexus TX, GX satisfy 2 heavy wishes for emblem

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since 2002, is getting into its 3rd era with a ground-up redesign and 2 unutilized trims that bolster off-road personality and capacity. The GX, which has been within the U.S. The GX will are available in Top rate, Top rate+, Luxurious and Luxurious+ trims, in addition to Overtrail and Overtrail+ trims, a primary for Lexus.

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New Honda FCEV Concept to make world debut at 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show

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The Honda FCEV Concept demonstrates the company’s vision for the future of personal mobility and our commitment to developing advanced alternative fuel vehicles. In 2002, Honda was the first automaker to begin a retail initiative with the leasing of its fuel-cell electric vehicles to fleet customers.

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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

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Regardless of what you might think about AI, the reality is that just about every successful deployment has either one of two expedients: It has a person somewhere in the loop, or the cost of failure, should the system blunder, is very low. These haven't been the only terrible failures of AI systems when no person was in the loop.