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Toyota’s greenwashing AI ‘eco-copilot’ is fake, but the prank makes a real point

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The announcement involved a press event at the National Press Club, along with official-looking press release and even a whole website. For example, in 2004 they posed as representatives of Dow Chemical and promised that the company would clean up after the Bhopal Disaster, leading to a temporary $2 billion drop in the company’s market cap.

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

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engineers were forming hobby clubs to learn about the new machines. Lowe's plan for the PC called for buying existing components and software and bolting them together into a package aimed at the consumer market. In reality, customers were buying 200,000 PCs per month by the second year. and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

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Where Can I Buy One? New 100K Club Member RAV4EV in Japan Newsletter Vol. 100K Mile Club Newsletter Vol. org EV1 Club Home page [link] Original GM web site (circa Gen II model) www.evchargernews.com Owner's experience driving a RA4 EV www.prossen.com/ev RAV4 EV original TV ad www.a52.com Why Am I a Member?

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From Home Brew to Hasbro

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I started indulging in my hobby of building robots, and subsequently met up with other like-minded people at the Silicon Valley Home Brew Robotics Club. One of the first people I met at the club was Bob Allen, an electronics engineer who had a machine shop in his garage and could make amazing mechanical things.