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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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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. Some autonomous capabilities are less controversial, while others trigger intense debate over the legality and ethics of the capability.

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After Tesla trademarked ‘CYBERBACKPACK,’ the product’s inventor sits at a crossroads

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Riz Nwosu was inspired when he went to the Tesla Cybertruck unveiling in 2019. After snagging some pictures with the newly-revealed Cybertruck and company CEO Elon Musk, Riz developed a backpack inspired by the futuristic pickup he saw in Hawthorne, California, in late 2019. November 2019. It’s definitely not equal to one.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Coast Guard To verify the caller’s identity and solve the apparent crime, the Coast Guard’s investigative service emailed the files to Rita Singh , a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and author of the textbook Profiling Humans From Their Voice (Springer, 2019). A 2020 U.S.

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Electrify America, Sacramento announce Green City investments: ZEV car-sharing, ZEV bus and shuttle routes, EV charging systems

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This service allows users to pick up and drop off a vehicle at any legal public parking spot, including metered locations, within a 13 sq. This service will be available in Q1 2019. mile “Home Zone.” Perfect for a first-mile-last-mile connection, the user either pays for rental time or distance traveled, whichever is less expensive.

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Chips to Compute With Encrypted Data Are Coming

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In Europe the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) guards personal data and recently led to a US $1.3 Fully homomorphic encryption is an automated solution to get around legal and regulatory issues while still protecting privacy,” says Kurt Rohloff , CEO of Duality Technologies , in Hoboken, N.J., billion fine for Meta.

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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Abbott and his team filed applications in 2018 and 2019 in 17 patent offices around the world, including in the United States, several European countries, China, Japan, and India. Some patent applicants have been instructed by their attorney to use a person’s name on the patent even if a machine came up with the invention. Charles, Mo.