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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

Cars That Think

An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. “If It’s built into Wi-Fi and has been included in all wireless cellular standards starting with 3G. Participation in Wi-Fi standardization projects. This increases the data rate and improves channel reliability.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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That goal led ultimately to a page description language called PostScript, today the de facto standard of desktop publishing. proved loath to support a truly standard language. And Xerox begged the issue of standardization by producing several versions of the language, so the company’s older laser printers could run some form of it.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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Investors generally relied on a simplistic ratings scale (Triple-A, B, C) from the credit ratings agencies (Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s, and Fitch) to guide them through the strange new world of subprime mortgage-backed credit derivatives. Offset Quality Initiative, Ensuring Offset Quality (July 2008), available at: [link].

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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That looks like an early attempt at finding dark data at this corporate level. Steven Cherry: There's a process in legal cases, especially lawsuits, that involves an incredibly tedious process of finding and extracting information from sometimes enormous masses of data that by law, the other side has to provide.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. 12, 1989, PC Magazine contains six articles on graphical user interfaces for personal computers and workstations.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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Giving you access to perks, including Spectrum magazine and many education and career resources. My primary appointment is at the law school where I teach legal philosophy. So it was from 1600 to 2014, about whether you’re allowed legally to go to war. And how does it relate to legal and ethical questions we have?

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