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Elon Musk’s xAI highlights societal impact with Nevada incorporation: report

Teslarati

” xAI also noted that it is guided by its mission to “advance our collective understanding of the universe.” ” Unlike traditional corporations solely focused on shareholder value, xAI’s legal structure as a benefit corporation formalizes its commitment to positive societal and environmental outcomes.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

Advanced technology, prototype vehicles, and business plans are being developed by Google, car sharing services like Car2Go (Daimler), Uber, automakers, network providers, software and technology suppliers. DOT, NHTSA and the University of Michigan. So far, permits have been issued to Google, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, Delphi, and Audi.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

Cars That Think

Huawei has said it would not comply with such a request and believes that it cannot be legally forced to do so. This fact has allowed Huawei to expand its already formidable 4G market share into 5G, as it had many carriers already locked into the Huawei equipment universe. So the U.S.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Emblematic of the hope, faith, perseverance, and drive to overcome systemic legal and social barriers the song encapsulates is the life of self-taught technical genius Lewis H. So, he was a natural choice when Edison General Electric’s legal department was looking for someone to speak for the company in a spate of patent interference cases.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Meanwhile, legal scholars and civil-society groups are asking whether a hands-off border can really keep Europe’s hands clean. The main reason is because the E.U. million people.

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How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records

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One of these warrants, served on Google and covering the interior of the Capitol, showed that a device associated with the Gmail account in question entered the Senate Wing door at 2:18 p.m. The legal documents suggest that about 35 rioters were identified this way, without first being named by witnesses. on 6 January.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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