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E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

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He’s the co-founder and CEO of ERI , one of the largest electronics disposition providers in the world, and the co-author of ERI’s 2021 book The Insecurity of Everything : How Hardware Data Security is Becoming the Most Important Topic in the World. That’s why we wrote the book: The vast majority of our clients still were not listening.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. When are we going to have full (level-5) self-driving cars? He’s also turned it into a book. I’ve read it. It’s superb.

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Why Hybrids are gaining momentum amid EV frenzy | Autocar Professional

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Honda Cars India too which had started selling the City Hybrid in 2022, got a fantastic response and had more than doubled its allocation for 2023 to cater to the rising demand. There is a significant waiting period of over 8-12 months for hybrids for some models like Invicto and HyCross and the booking momentum continues.

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Must Read 40+ Electric Vehicle Interview Questions & Answers

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Around 1832, Robert Anderson develops the first crude electric vehicle, but it isn’t until the 1870s or later that electric cars become practical. A petrol car has an efficiency of 28%. This is primarily due to the cleaner energy sources used for charging and the absence of tailpipe emissions during operation.

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

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It did not matter that Microsoft's software was notorious for having bugs or that IBM's was far cleaner. As Gerstner noted in his 2002 book , “What my colleagues seemed unwilling or unable to accept was that the war was already over and was a resounding defeat—90 percent market share for Windows to OS/2's 5 percent or 6 percent."

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Labour's £5,000 sweetener to launch electric car revolution | Environment | The Guardian

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Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian Consumers are to be offered incentives of up to £5,000 to purchase an electric car under government plans to be unveiled today that will also see the creation of electric car cities across the UK and the launch of large-scale experiments with ultra-green vehicles.

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Functional Programming: The Biggest Change Since We Killed The Goto?

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Today we are talking with Charles Scalfani , CTO of Panoramic Software , about how adopting functional programming could lead to cleaner and more maintainable code. In fact, in the book that I wrote , it isn’t for hundreds of pages before you actually get to putting something on the screen. Charles, welcome to Fixing the Future.

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