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Wall-Climbing Robot Shelves to Keep You Organized

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And thing the second: Organizing my life, and then keeping organized, is a pain in the butt. During the pandemic I saw an increased number of articles advising people to clean up and declutter at home. I don’t know about you, but being stuck at home during the pandemic made me realize two things.

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International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopts revised strategy to reduce GHG emissions from international shipping.

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Member States of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), meeting at the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 80) earlier this month, adopted the 2023 IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships. It was attended by some 1,800 delegates (in person and remotely).

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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. and Poughkeepsie, N.Y., IBM CEO Frank T.

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The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI

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Organized by John McCarthy , Marvin Minsky , Claude Shannon , and Nathaniel Rochester , it brought together a few dozen of the leading thinkers in AI, computer science, and information theory to map out future paths for investigation. So who was this unknown person? He assured me that the unknown person was not his father.

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Elon Musk debunks WSJ claim he had affair with Sergey Brin’s wife

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The article claimed sources said Sergey Brin divorced his wife in January upon learning of her affair with Elon Musk. They once wrote an article saying FBI was about to arrest me, so I called FBI to ask what’s up and they said WSJ article was total bs. But would I use my position as a writer to make personal attacks on them?

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Uber India gets ‘Great Place to Work’ certification for a year – ET Auto

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The Certification reflects Uber’s dedication to fostering an exceptional workplace culture, creating an environment where employees can thrive both personally and professionally. Their proprietary methodology and platform enable organizations to truly capture, analyze, and understand the experience of all employees.

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Access South Africa’s Leading Research Journal’s Entire Collection

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The open-access quarterly journal from the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers publishes peer-reviewed articles on research in IEEE’s fields of interest. The digitization of the 5,000 articles—dating between 1909, when the publication launched, and 2008—took almost eight years to complete.

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