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The BMW i7 is dominating its ICE counterpart

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The Spectre, which has yet to even make it to customers’ garages, filled its order books shortly after launch, according to comments given to Car Magazine. “We lead because we listen,” Rolls Royce executive Torsten Müller-Ötvös told Car Magazine. What do you think of the article?

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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This article features IEEE Board of Directors members Sergio Benedetto, Jenifer Castillo, and Fred Schindler. He has coauthored five books and more than 250 papers. Schindler holds 11 patents and has published more than 40 technical articles. Benedetto has been active in digital communications for more than 40 years.

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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

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A few years ago, Martin Ford published a book called Architects of Intelligence , in which he interviewed 23 of the most experienced AI and robotics researchers in the world. In November of that year, a front-page New York Times article was instrumental in bringing awareness of deep learning technology to the broader public sphere.

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After 50 Years, Digital Voices Speak Again

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Instead, they were encoded in the grooves of a phonograph record bound inside the magazine. Due to their low cost, thin form factor, and pliability, flexi discs became the medium of choice for magazine publishers who wished to supplement articles with audio content. Recordings were not limited to musical performances.

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Celebrating the Life of Columbia Professor Stephen Unger

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He published three books on the topic, including Controlling Technology: Ethics and the Responsible Engineer. He wrote several papers on ethics and technology, as well as computer science, and he penned articles for IEEE Technology and Society Magazine and The Institute. Unger was dedicated to promoting ethics in engineering.

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"Nothing About Us Without Us"

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And we took onboard their experiences and designed a site and a magazine based on that feedback. Young, who is working on a book about the prosthetics industry, was in the first cohort of toddlers fitted with a myoelectric prosthetic hand, which users control by tensing and relaxing their muscles against sensors inside the device’s socket.

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Why L. Ron Hubbard Patented His E-Meter

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From 1934 to 1940, he regularly penned 70,000 to 100,000 words per month of pulp fiction under 15 different pseudonyms published in various magazines. An abridged version of this article appears in the April 2024 print issue as “The Scientology Machine.” Ron Hubbard a prolific writer is an extreme understatement.