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

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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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Bridgestone to acquire TomTom’s telematics business for $1B in cash

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Bridgestone Corporation announced that its subsidiary Bridgestone Europe NV/SA, has entered into an agreement with TomTom to acquire TomTom Telematics, its digital fleet solutions business, for a cash consideration of €910 million (US$1.034 billion). —Harold Goddijn, CEO, TomTom.

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Honda begins joint research with Boston University in information security for AI; secure MPC

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In order to enable AI to cooperate with people, personal information about the users must be collected and analyzed. Currently, personalized services have become common in our daily lives. These systems typically share personal data of users, often without their knowledge and control. This information must be protected.

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Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

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Over the coming years, generative AI will support creative, analytic, and scientific applications that go far beyond today’s text and image generators; we’ll see such applications as personalized tutors, desktop healthcare assistants, and backyard film studios. trillion in value globally. However, the E.U.

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Hindustan Zinc may put off demerger – ET Auto

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This is for a second time in just over a year that HZL’s proposals have been shot down by the government-the last one was about the miner’s acquisition of parent Vedanta ‘s global zinc assets in a $2.98-billion billion cash deal.

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

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So someone else—I call them the data collectors in the book—typically they’re corporations, but data collectors have to decide what kinds of characteristics, what kinds of behaviors, what kinds of things they want to collect data on about what human beings are doing. Are they the person who has died? Are they people?

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AlixPartners study finds post-crisis auto industry facing new set of challenges; sales projected below historical levels for foreseeable future

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Meanwhile, according to an AlixPartners survey of 1,000 Americans regarding their views of the US economy and their personal economic situations, 83% said they had delayed or planned to wait at least a year to buy a vehicle. —Mark Wakefield, a director in AlixPartners’ Global Automotive Practice.