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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. This explains, for example, why progress toward fully autonomous self-driving cars has not lived up to some of the more exuberant early predictions.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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He was therefore perfectly positioned to be the author of the definitive corporate history of the company he used to work for, in a book entitled IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon , which was published in 2019 by MIT Press. Oh, yes, they definitely have to be on the list.". Maybe you can describe it.

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How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper

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In a world that hadn’t seen a monochrome display in a very long time—TVs made the switch in the 1960s, computer monitors in the late ’80s—a monochrome display was definitely quaintly old school. Yet its limitation was obvious—images could appear only in black and white.

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Electric Car Watch #1: Electric Car Disruption will destroy ICE Car Market | ? ?

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By Abhishek & Kamlesh Welcome to the new weekly series -- Electric Car Watch. We will talk about EV plans of major car brands, take a look at their EV vision, and go over their technology platforms. This week’s episode is mostly an introduction to this series and some of our thoughts on the global electric car scene.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Like a lot of people, I've been thinking about trading in my car. The case, morally and even financially, for an all-electric car is becoming stronger and stronger. Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. car market. And yet, what about recharging?

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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By definition, they're diseases that afflict fewer than 200,000 people. So the combination of those two forms of data and the fact that the organizations aren't using all of that effectively—it basically is the definition of dark data. Hi, this is Steven Cherry for IEEE Spectrum's podcast, Fixing the Future. In two not unrelated ways.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Like a lot of people, I've been thinking about trading in my car. The case, morally and even financially, for an all-electric car is becoming stronger and stronger. Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. car market. And yet, what about recharging?