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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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IBM has its own claim to the invention of an aspect of the device, based on a year-2000 confidential internal report written by one of its employees, Shimon Shmueli. After a caning for truancy in his third year of high school that served as a wake-up call, Tan settled down to his studies and completed his O-level exams.

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First Drive: 2016 Hyundai Sonata PHEV and HEV

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Sonata PHEV is expected to deliver 93 MPGe combined in EV mode based on internal estimates. l/100 km) combined based on internal testing. The Sonata PHEV is perfectly capable of handling (legal) Interstate speeds on battery pack alone; however, such operation depletes the battery relatively quickly. Click to enlarge.

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Deploying Data Science and AI to Fight Wildlife Trafficking

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Wildlife trafficking concerns both conservation and global security, with significant effects across the international community. The result will be a specialized search engine that will go deeper than Google could dream of, bringing leads to the fingers of law enforcement that would have previously required huge amounts of manpower.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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A Google search didn't yield an answer to that question. In fact, it's rare enough that Google didn't autocomplete the word even with 15 of its 19 letters typed in. And all of those were really valuable learnings for me around how organizations want to do a better job of using their data internally. I don't know.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Broadcasting a false distress signal over maritime radio is a violation of international code and, in the United States, a federal Class D felony. As such, there are many reasons to be concerned about its use in the criminal legal system. The alarm was more than just a prank call. A 2020 U.S.

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Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

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The heads of OpenAI and Google have both openly discussed the need for regulations. Academia, civil society, people who are really taking the time to study what is the most effective regulation that still will hold industry’s feet to the fire a bit but allow them to innovate. Wald: Yeah. Wald: Absolutely.

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Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem

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The degree to which large language models (LLMs) might “memorize” some of their training inputs has long been a question, raised by scholars including Google DeepMind’s Nicholas Carlini and the first author of this article (Gary Marcus). legal questions (would these outputs count as copyright infringement?),

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