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Tesla Is The World’s Most Searched Car Brand, New Study Reveals

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Confused, which was reportedly the world’s first comparison site, founded in 2002, is now focused on comparing insurance options. Researchers for the site used Google search data and […]. Tesla is the world’s most searched car brand, a new study by Confused.com found.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif., He received the 2002 U.S. as a software engineer.

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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

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In 2002, iRobot , a company that I cofounded, introduced the first mass-market autonomous home-cleaning robot, the Roomba, at a price that severely constricted how much AI we could endow it with. SOURCE: GOOGLE NGRAMS. Here, we, the users, are the people in the loop. The ghost in the machine, if you will.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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ComputerWorld/Google Books /3M 3M didn’t rest on its laurels with the floppy disk either, and tried to push the technology further, most notably with Floptical disk technology , which Jim Adkisson, who helped create the 5.25-inch (Though 3M obviously never associated with the Nazis during World War II, so there’s that.)

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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It happened as well in 2002 when IBM sold its disk drive business to Hitachi at that time. If we were to list them ourselves, it would surely include Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple. But that's almost exactly the same revenue as Google—now Alphabet—in the mere 19 years from 2002 to 2020.

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

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Months later, in 2002, Bob and I finally had a set of electronics put together, with the right motors figured out, and we were ready to take a crack at making it balance and drive around. Bender the Balancing Robot, built in 2002. Balancing Android robots built for Google. Bob and I wondered if we could build something similar.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Beginning in 2002, Tan brought suit in Singapore against a handful of companies (including Electec, FE Global Electronics, M-Systems, and Ritronics Components) for patent infringement. Had Trek been a larger company with more resources and more patent experience, the story might have had a different ending.

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