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

Cars That Think

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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Opinion: 4 Things You Should Think About Before Buying a Sports Car

Clean Fleet Report

This article may contain affiliate links. Personal tastes and preferences, such as transmission type and color, should also be considered. Remember, you are buying a car, not a deal. We also feature those efficient gas-powered vehicles that are among the top mpg vehicles in their class. Don’t be wowed by the deal.

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The US’ EV incentives are being updated: Here’s some useful tips

Teslarati

Many states determine eligibility by fuel type, class of vehicle, whether the vehicle is new or used, and how the vehicle will be used (commercially or personally). With incentives changing consistently and some places now choosing to either phase out or ax incentives altogether , now may be the best time to buy a new electric vehicle.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. You wrote a famous article in 2017, “ The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Prediction. “ Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee?

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Opinion: The Bentley Crash in New York is Scrambling Brains

The Truth About Cars

The article is a doozy of automotive ignorance. I understand that someone who isn’t a car person – and I have no idea of what level of automotive knowledge Kois possesses – might make an unfortunate correlation between the number of gears in a transmission and the amount of power a car’s engine possesses. Hell, a bicyclist will get it.

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The worst thing about owning an electric vehicle in Australia isn’t getting any better. In fact, it’s getting worse | Opinion

EV Central

Or consider Chat GPT, launched less than a year ago and already on millions of smart phones and being used to replace journalists (spoiler alert, no, I didn’t use it to write this article) and to shrink or destroy the critical faculties of billions of students.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

Fleets tested Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 tractors for three years: Here’s what they learned. It’s crucial that any operator have at least one person charged with the responsibility of coordinating all aspects of adding electric trucks to a fleet. Rising fuel-economy standards during the 2020s will do the same.

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