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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

Cars That Think

If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out.

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Review: “Getting Ready for Model 3”

Green Car Congress

This book answers their questions and provides a roadmap for those who want to better understand the car. The book: Examines the exterior and interior of Model 3 with exclusive photos; Clarifies issues such as range and “range anxiety;”. —Roger Pressman. Chapter 8, “When Can I Expect My Model 3 To Be Delivered”).

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

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? Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee? Can they throw it 10 miles?

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World’s first indoor electric car drive-in cinema lands at Farnborough later this year

Drive EV

This – the first in a series of drive-in events – will be held at Farnborough International, approximately 30 minutes from London Heathrow, and electric car drivers, and passengers alike, are guaranteed a unique cinematic experience. driveEV is the UK's only online magazine dedicated to electric cars.

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Celebrating the Life of Columbia Professor Stephen Unger

Cars That Think

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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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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The Essential Vannevar Bush

Cars That Think

During World War II, as personal science and engineering adviser to President Roosevelt, he led all research by civilians for the military and organized the Manhattan Project. Peace Through Strength The decision to work on weapons technology, or not, was highly personal to Bush and a decision not easy to unpack.

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