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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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Study finds ride-sharing companies biggest contributors to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco

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Data and an interactive mapping tool are available at congestion.sfcta.org. TNCs are on-demand ride services where rides are arranged through a mobile app to connect the passenger with a driver, often a private individual driving their personal vehicle. Data and an interactive mapping tool are available at tncstoday.sfcta.org.

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AI Has Created a Battle Over Web Crawling

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Longpre: The tragedy of this is that robots.txt is machine-readable but does not appear to be legally enforceable. Whereas the terms of service may be legally enforceable but are not machine-readable. I do think that in terms of easily available data, many companies are starting to hit walls and turning to synthetic data.

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Electrify America, Sacramento announce Green City investments: ZEV car-sharing, ZEV bus and shuttle routes, EV charging systems

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This service allows users to pick up and drop off a vehicle at any legal public parking spot, including metered locations, within a 13 sq. This service will be available in Q1 2019. These cars will be available for rental by residents as a paid service at competitive rates. mile “Home Zone.”

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Big Data Could Accelerate Drug Approvals

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It can take up to 15 years to get a new drug through the regulatory-approval process before it becomes available to patients. The technology could have been used during COVID-19 shutdowns, when auditors were unable to make in-person visits to clinical-trial locations, Ménard says. An overview of the findings is now available.

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Chips to Compute With Encrypted Data Are Coming

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In Europe the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) guards personal data and recently led to a US $1.3 Fully homomorphic encryption is an automated solution to get around legal and regulatory issues while still protecting privacy,” says Kurt Rohloff , CEO of Duality Technologies , in Hoboken, N.J., billion fine for Meta.

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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Abbott and his team filed applications in 2018 and 2019 in 17 patent offices around the world, including in the United States, several European countries, China, Japan, and India. Abbott’s talk is available on IEEE.tv. If that person couldn’t prove he or she was the inventor, the patent couldn’t be enforced. Charles, Mo.