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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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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Secret Service claims to be able to identify an unknown person in a voice-only lineup, comparing a recording of an unknown voice with a recording of a known speaker, as a reference. In 2004, Singh fielded her first query about hoax callers from the Coast Guard. Singh did not build a profile from an unidentified voice.

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Ford unveils Fusion Hybrid research vehicle for autonomous driving

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The result of an ongoing project that builds on more than a decade of Ford’s automated driving research, the Fusion Hybrid automated vehicle will test current and future sensing systems and driver-assist technologies. The Fusion Hybrid research vehicle builds on driver-in-control studies conducted in Ford’s VIRTTEX driving simulator.

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X PRIZE Foundation Aims to Launch $100M in Prizes Over Next 10 Years, Targeting 4 Key Areas

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Energy Efficiency/Use : smart buildings, transportation, command. On 4 October 2004, X PRIZE awarded the largest prize in history, the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE, to aerospace designer Burt Rutan and financier Paul Allen for creation and successful mission of the first private spacecraft, SpaceShipOne. prosthetic eye, haptics).

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THE UNOBVIOUS ONES: Serving to Genesis Canada promote ‘anything else that drives benefit’ outdoor untouched automobiles

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He additionally is helping assemble web pages for old automobiles and builds gross sales techniques for demonstrator automobiles. Shifting to Ontario, he joined Kia Canada in 2004 in advertising and marketing and upcoming moved product making plans. “I Sujaa has a four-person crew at Mazda’s head employment in Richmond Hill, Ont.

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Ford contributing 20 vehicles to simTD V2X trials

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The project’s goal is to better understand the potential for car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication technologies to improve traffic safety and personal mobility. The sim TD project is fielding a fleet of 120 vehicles to to test 20 experimental driver assistance technologies. Earlier post.)

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Sony invests in Cogitai; collaborating on R&D for next wave of artificial intelligence

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These systems will allow machines to autonomously build up their own knowledge and skills from interactive experience with the real world, and then to share and extend their knowledge, skills and understanding with each other. Sony has a long history of R&D in AI.

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