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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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How Can We Talk About Autonomous Weapons?

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This article is part of our Autonomous Weapons Challenges series. In order to address the legal and ethical issues that an autonomous weapons system (AWS) can raise, it’s important to look at the many technical challenges that arise along the full spectrum of autonomy. Determining legal obligations. Ensuring robustness.

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Chips to Compute With Encrypted Data Are Coming

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This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. In Europe the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) guards personal data and recently led to a US $1.3 Wally” Rhines came across Cornami in 2019, the company was planning to apply the architecture to machine learning, but the field was already too crowded, he says.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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note: We’re republishing this article because it’s a good reminder of how technology timelines can slip and yet things are clearly moving forward. This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. This article may contain affililate links.

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Big Data Could Accelerate Drug Approvals

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The technology could have been used during COVID-19 shutdowns, when auditors were unable to make in-person visits to clinical-trial locations, Ménard says. The group, which goes by the moniker IMPALA, conducted several use-case studies and published its findings in a 2021 journal article that Ménard coauthored.

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Here are the ELECTRIC VEHICLE ACTS in India

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For all these reasons Indian central government, as well as the state governments, have made bold policies and made regulations more consumer-friendly in order to facilitate the mass adaption of EVs, and in this article, we are going to discuss some of those policies and regulations. Number plate. Driving license.

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A Critical Look at AI-Generated Software

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And in 2019, a software flaw was discovered in an insulin pump that could allow hackers to remotely control it and deliver incorrect insulin doses to patients. An influential 2005 article in IEEE Spectrum identified several factors, which are still quite relevant. Thankfully, nobody actually suffered such a fate.