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

Cars That Think

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 do Chinese language EV makers roll out unutilized merchandise so temporarily?

Baua Electric

Certainly one of our readers despatched me an e-mail asking how it’s imaginable that some 2-year-old Chinese language firms have already got 3 unutilized EVs at the street (Zeekr) or {that a} unutilized maker can create 7 unutilized fashions and seven facelifts in 5 years (Nio). All are in keeping with Geely’s SEA platform.

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Huawei’s smart car tech offers automakers route to China sales – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Huawei Technologies has two huge booths at this week’s event, and there are at least seven Chinese automakers touting its Qiankun installed in their cars as the most sophisticated advanced driving assistance system (ADAS) to date. ” said Evangelos Simoudis, an investor and corporate adviser.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

Cars That Think

Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

Cars That Think

But like so many people my age, I grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s where I got hooked on personal computers. Schneider: So you and I have worked now on your article in Spectrum which is based on a section of the book that covers the Mirai malware. He was a brilliant, brilliant person. Upcode is anything above your fingertips.

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The Unsung Inventor Who Chased the LED Rainbow

Cars That Think

This article was first published as “M. Soon, in 1974, he was bumped up again to technology director, and moved from Monsanto’s corporate headquarters in St. Appearances are deceiving. George Craford.” It appeared in the February 1995 issue of IEEE Spectrum. A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. IEEE Spectrum.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

This article discusses: (a) why the focus should have been on the transfer of proven renewable energy technology from developed to developing countries; and (b) how this technology transfer can be financed with currently available funds. The Chinese can promise to do this because they’re modernizing their economy.