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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. At IBM plants in San Diego, Endicott, N.Y, and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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There are two major reasons for this: first, EVs are not going to reach the numbers required by 2050 to hit their needed contribution to net zero goals , and even if they did, a host of other personal, social and economic activities must be modified to reach the total net zero mark. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K.

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Smart Charging: How AI and IoT are Transforming EV Charging

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It continually learns and adapts, improving its predictions over time to offer more personalized and efficient charging schedules. Another compelling case study comes from a residential neighbourhood in San Diego, California, where ChargePoint built the world’s largest and most open electric vehicle (EV) charging network.