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A Serial Entrepreneur Shares Lessons Learned on His Road to Success

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His most recent venture, Insent , was a business-to-business chat platform based in Denver; it was acquired last year by software and data company ZoomInfo of Vancouver, Wash. Vibe collects data about companies from the Internet, organizes it into a searchable list, and makes it available to marketers and salespeople.

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Paying Tribute to Former IEEE President Richard Gowen

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His project led to the development of a device worn on a person's finger that measures blood pressure during physical exercise. After retiring, he led the conversion of the Homestake gold mine, in Lead, S.D., He was active in the IEEE Denver Section and was a founding member of the IEEE Pikes Peak Section , in Colorado Springs.

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A Critical Look at AI-Generated Software

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In 2005, faulty software for the US $176 million baggage-handling system at Denver International Airport forced the whole thing to be scrapped. Most recently, OpenAI launched ChatGPT , a large-language-model chatbot that is capable of writing code with a little prompting in a conversational manner.

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Proud of its roots

Electric Auto Association

The Denver EAA chapter is still dedicated to its core mission nearly 50 years after its founding. Members of the Denver Electric Vehicle Council tour the Xcel Energy Cherokee power plant. Fifty years ago, there were no EVs available commercially. Most of us just did our own conversions. Air Force Academy. “We

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Andrew Leland on Assistive Tech for the Blind

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Imagine the Siri voice or the Alexa voice; it’s like that, but rather than being an AI that you’re having a conversation with, it moves all the functionality of the computer from the mouse. If you think about the blind person, you know having a mouse isn’t very useful because they can’t see where the pointer is.

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More Electric Cars in Las Vegas with Stan Hanel's Story on the RAR'ster. with EVJerr Back to Webblogging, Sunday, 13 September 2009

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Mr. Moore made available his Papillion home’s historic dryer outlet as a recharging site when the roadtrip reached the vicinity of Omaha, Nebraska. EV conversion technologies have now made these types of vehicles possible and available through affiliates of the EAA, such as CalCars and Plug-in Supply.