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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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Arizona State University Professor’s Work to Stabilize the Grid Pays Off

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From synchronous machines to fast response power electronics That article was an update of a 2004 article that Vittal coauthored as a member of a joint task force formed by the IEEE Power & Energy Society and CIGRE , an international association of power system professionals, headquartered in Paris. I like working with students,” he says.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Coast Guard To verify the caller’s identity and solve the apparent crime, the Coast Guard’s investigative service emailed the files to Rita Singh , a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and author of the textbook Profiling Humans From Their Voice (Springer, 2019). A 2020 U.S.

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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

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The magazine’s team seemed to have buckled in the driver’s seatbelt without a person sitting in the seat. Simply put, if a person is intentionally putting themselves in danger by participating in illegal driving behaviors, no driver-monitoring system would be enough. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2019.

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Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

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Terry Byland is the only person to have received this kind of implant in both eyes. Second Sight Medical Products , in his right eye in 2004 and the subsequent Argus II implant in his left 11 years later. I] went from being just a person that was doing the testing to being a spokesman,” he remembers. million at $5 per share.

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Study: California will hit climate targets >100 years too late at current pace of reductions; transportation, wildfires & landfills

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At current pace, the share will reach 2% by the end of 2019. vehicles per 100 persons in 2018. vehicles per 100 persons. Landfill emissions are also emerging as a policy challenge, having risen every single year since 2004 in California, and shooting up 7.4% The 2019 Index is a call to action. from 2016 to 2017.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

Provide clear goals, committee independence About Sterling: Sterling drives a 2019 Tesla Model 3 Dual Motor AWD FSD and is an electric automobile enthusiast while employed as a vetting specialist for ConocoPhillips. Personally meeting Sandy Munro to exchange ideas of the future of BEVs. What type of leadership makes you thrive?