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Artificially Intelligent Help for Planning Your Summer Vacation

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The summer travel season starts in just a few weeks, but if you are looking for software that goes beyond simply booking flights and hotels, you’re in luck. Like Google Maps, Apple’s Maps app offers mass transit and cycling directions to places if you’d like to skip taking a car. Credit… TripIt A.I.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif., as a software engineer.

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Did You Make Your Connecting Flight? You May Have A.I. to Thank.

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It’s like Google maps, but in the air,” explained Vikram Baskaran, vice president for information technology services at the carrier. American introduced Smart Gating at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in 2021 and now employs it at six airports, including Chicago O’Hare and Miami International. Generative A.I.

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BMW Group Launches car sharing service “ReachNow” in Seattle

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The service will expand to include Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in the next quarter. After downloading and registering on the ReachNow app, available in the App Store and on Google Play, members can locate and book the closest available car in the ReachNow app or find a ReachNow car on the street.

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100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born

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as the International Business Machines Corp. From the 19th century, through the 20th, and into the 21st, IBM was there, making HP, Microsoft, and Apple appear more like children or grandchildren of the IT world; Facebook, Google, and Twitter/X more like great-grandchildren. For the 1890 U.S. But at least three survived.

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

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Adapted from the book BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell. Then, magically, Matt Rogers, who’d been one of the first interns on the iPod project, reached out to me. Nest Gets Googled. In 2014, Google bought Nest for $3.2 In 2016 Google decided to sell Nest, so I left the company.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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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. They were “homegrown” businesses—largely created within 3M and commercialized and built with the energy of many internal sponsors and champions.