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College Admissions: Should AI Apply?

Cars That Think

To secure their place at the institution of higher learning of their choice, many of these students will need to write personal essays that reveal their perspective on the world and on themselves while showing how proficient they are at composing a cohesive, elegant narrative. If the U.S.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

Cars That Think

If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. As author David Morton noted in his 2006 book Sound Recording: The Life Story of a Technology , 3M was one of the best-suited companies on the market to help Brush out.

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Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis

Cars That Think

Spafford then went to Georgia Tech to pursue a master’s degree in information and computer science. I did a lot of reading and studying on where computers might be used and where they could go wrong, as well as reading science-fiction books that explored those possibilities,” he says. Spafford wrote the first papers on the topic.

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Kia EV9 and Volvo EX30: Are they 2024’s most important EVs?

Charged EVs

The first several months’ worth of EV9s will be built in South Korea, but US production will start sometime during 2024 in West Point, Georgia. Order books were originally scheduled to open in November, but Volvo has delayed that to the early part of this year—with first customer deliveries in the U.S. and Canada chosen by their peers.

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Kia EV9 and Volvo EX30: Are they 2024’s most important EVs? – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

The first several months’ worth of EV9s will be built in South Korea, but US production will start sometime during 2024 in West Point, Georgia. Order books were originally scheduled to open in November, but Volvo has delayed that to the early part of this year—with first customer deliveries in the U.S. and Canada chosen by their peers.

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It’s #TimeForUnrest Because My Friend Liz Deserves A Life Outside Her Bedroom

Creative Greenius

Smart, witty, humble – a little awkward, but a bright shining light with such a positive and endearing personality I couldn’t help but love Liz and make a rare exception to my “Children Not Invited” rule. Liz read books and was interested in current events and liked to talk about them – all traits we shared.

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