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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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Can Autonomous Weapons Be Compatible With International Humanitarian Law?

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This article is part of our Autonomous Weapons Challenges series. The fundamentals of IHL were developed before the widespread use of personal computers, satellites, the Internet, and social media, and before private data became a commodity that could be accessed remotely and often without a person’s knowledge or consent.

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How Can We Talk About Autonomous Weapons?

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This article is part of our Autonomous Weapons Challenges series. In order to address the legal and ethical issues that an autonomous weapons system (AWS) can raise, it’s important to look at the many technical challenges that arise along the full spectrum of autonomy. A group of experts convened by.

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Tesla direct sales under threat from dealer-backed bills in Florida

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” According to the lobbyists listed in association with the Bill on the Florida State Legislature website, both bills have received sizable backing from dealers and dealership groups, including the AutoNation dealership chain, the Florida Association of Automotive Dealers, and the South Florida Association of Automotive Dealers. .”

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

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Yuste next convened a group of neuroscientists, clinicians, ethicists, and engineers to come up with ethical priorities for neurotechnology, which they published in a 2017 Nature paper. The right to personal identity. The 5 Neurorights. The right to mental privacy. The right to free will. The right to protection from bias.

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Driving Dystopia: Automakers Are Selling Your Driving Data to Insurance Companies

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LexisNexis analyzed that driving data to create a risk score “for insurers to use as one factor of many to create more personalized insurance coverage,” according to a LexisNexis spokesman, Dean Carney. According to the report, the trip details had been provided by General Motors — the manufacturer of the Chevy Bolt. OnStar is G.M.’s

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Big Data Could Accelerate Drug Approvals

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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. The group, which goes by the moniker IMPALA, conducted several use-case studies and published its findings in a 2021 journal article that Ménard coauthored.