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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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Judge rules against Tesla insurance over ‘inflated’ premiums

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The suit claims that several Tesla drivers “reported suffering sporadic and random Forward Collision Warnings when there is no danger in sight,” which effectively drops a person’s safety score and increases the premiums they must pay. Tesla Insurance has since launched in 12 U.S.

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Bridgestone to acquire TomTom’s telematics business for $1B in cash

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The transaction is anticipated to be completed latest in the second quarter of 2019, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions such as regulatory approvals. TomTom is the number one provider of digital fleet solutions in Europe, a marketplace with very diverse in legal, commercial and cultural requirements.

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After Tesla trademarked ‘CYBERBACKPACK,’ the product’s inventor sits at a crossroads

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Riz Nwosu was inspired when he went to the Tesla Cybertruck unveiling in 2019. After snagging some pictures with the newly-revealed Cybertruck and company CEO Elon Musk, Riz developed a backpack inspired by the futuristic pickup he saw in Hawthorne, California, in late 2019. November 2019. It’s definitely not equal to one.

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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. The infrastructure was not designed to accommodate all of these different use cases at once. Can you talk about those findings?

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Pedestrian Trapped Under Cruise Vehicle in San Francisco

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Our heartfelt concern and focus is the wellbeing of the person who was injured and we are actively working with police to help identify the responsible driver,” Cruise said. But the courts decided it couldn’t be held liable after Arizona prosecutors decided not to go after the company in 2019.

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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The patent is for a food container that uses fractal designs to create pits and bulges in its sides. Designed for the packaging industry, the new configuration allows containers to fit more tightly together so they can be transported better. The network can then alter the training data, thereby generating new designs.