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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Meanwhile, he wrote poetry, played the flute, became a renowned public intellectual writing about the confluence of art and science, and even taught himself to speak French well enough to supervise an electrical lighting installation working with francophones in Montreal. According to historians at the Latimer House Museum in Queens, N.Y.,

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Xerox executives made all sorts of promises: we’ll buy 20,000, just talk to this executive in Virginia, then talk to this executive in Connecticut. Not just one sheet, but whole books,” said Conway. It looked like a book, and Addison-Wesley agreed to publish it as a book. After a year I was ready to give up.”

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Twitter Files part 14 sheds light on “Russian bots” and #ReleaseTheMemo

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The Twitter Files part 14, written by independent journalist, Matt Taibbi, shed light on a false narrative of Russian bots and the hashtag #ReleaseTheMemo. Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal also wrote a letter. Taibbi, who was given access to the internal documents at Twitter by Elon Musk, released a new installment on Thursday.

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