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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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Audio Magazine/Internet Archive /Scotch As Smithsonian Magazine notes , the formulation he developed, combining cabinetmaker’s glue with glycerin, proved to be just the right level of easy-to-remove adhesive that it became an out-and-out phenomenon. I bought them from a junk store, and maybe paid $2 for them.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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His “As We May Think” article, for the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic magazine, envisioned a desktop computer and a “web” of “associative trails” that no less than the founders of Google cite as the inspiration for today’s information science and the Internet.

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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

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To give you an idea, this year's attendees included Google, Microsoft, Hulu, Amazon, and the Central Intelligence Agency. So, what does the future have in store for AT? Wired Magazine refers to this layered reality as the "Mirrorworld." CSUN, it should be noted, is no newcomer to the field. The Future of Assistive Technology.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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The example I used at the time was, I think it was a Google program labeling an image of people playing Frisbee in the park. So it’s a lot better than just a 10-word Google search. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly. Or 60,000 tokens. More context. Brooks: Absolutely.

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Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

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Visually, it’s an astounding aircraft, like something from a 1930s pulp sci-fi magazine. The journey that made Leng’s dream a reality kicked into high gear in 2014 when a chance meeting with investor Sebastian Thrun at an aviation conference led to Google cofounder Larry Page investing in Leng’s project.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. You would tell it where you want to go—and since this is a trip, you make several times a year, you would have it as a stored destination—and you would tell the car, okay, give me a route and the car will route you via DC fast chargers.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. You would tell it where you want to go—and since this is a trip, you make several times a year, you would have it as a stored destination—and you would tell the car, okay, give me a route and the car will route you via DC fast chargers.