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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear. MB of data. Clones, in a sense, are marvelous….it

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Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

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Over the coming years, generative AI will support creative, analytic, and scientific applications that go far beyond today’s text and image generators; we’ll see such applications as personalized tutors, desktop healthcare assistants, and backyard film studios. And after a confrontation with its member state governments in December, the E.U.

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Ford, GM rolling out third-party developer programs for in-vehicle apps

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With more than three dozen AppLink-compatible apps publicly available on Apple iOS and Google Android, the SDK is now mature enough that Ford engineers are ready to let larger ecosystem of developers try it out. App developers who want to enable their creations for AppLink can now register at [link] to download the AppLink SDK.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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The US and China take the lead in scaling up the technology, given their large markets, tech-friendly regulatory environments and industry giants, such as Google and the State Grid Corporation of China. Some don’t manage, and political tensions rise in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Dirty nationalism. ?Elections

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Harris Interactive survey for Johnson Controls identifies consumer preferences for connected vehicles

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Safety is the single most important feature among a list of nine—also including: vehicle diagnostics; navigation; entertainment; communication/ connectivity; information apps; audio apps; concierge/ personal service; and social apps—in the selection of a vehicle (75%). Pandora, Google Maps).

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The Global Project to Make a General Robotic Brain

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In 2023, our labs at Google and the University of California, Berkeley came together with 32 other robotics laboratories in North America, Europe, and Asia to undertake the RT-X project , with the goal of assembling data, resources, and code to make general-purpose robots a reality. We decided to give it a try.

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The Chip Shortage, Giant Chips, and the Future of Moore’s Law

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With COVID-19 shaking the global supply chain like an angry toddler with a box of jelly beans, the average person had to take a crash course in the semiconductor industry. But you are not the average person, dear reader. SambaNova is after the same title, and clearly Google has it's eye on some awfully big neural networks , too.

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