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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Emblematic of the hope, faith, perseverance, and drive to overcome systemic legal and social barriers the song encapsulates is the life of self-taught technical genius Lewis H. Then, at night, he read books on technical drawing and reproduced sketches he had seen at the office.

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Tesla Model Y added to Hertz fleet, joining Model 3

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One is able to be booked, but no locations are currently offering the Model Y. markets as part of its phased national rollout. Tesla has far more demand than production, therefore we will only sell cars to Hertz for the same margin as to customers,” Musk said after confirming the two companies had no legally-binding contract.

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Volkswagen and Qatar to put autonomous electric vehicles on Doha roads in 2022

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The landmark project will create a holistic ecosystem for autonomous driving, including the creation of an appropriate legal framework, smart city infrastructure and transfer of knowledge, which can be used as a blueprint to transform urban mobility, both in Qatar and beyond.

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BMW Group Launches car sharing service “ReachNow” in Seattle

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After downloading and registering on the ReachNow app, available in the App Store and on Google Play, members can locate and book the closest available car in the ReachNow app or find a ReachNow car on the street. Chauffeur service – book a car with a driver. Renting your own vehicle via ReachNow.

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Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis

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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 was part of the team charged with isolating, analyzing, and cleaning up after the worm. However, computer security became a hobby of his. “I

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Granville T. Woods: Smartest Guy in the Room

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Fouché says the most interesting discovery he made during the five years he spent researching the book was “how shrewd, and careful, and savvy these black inventors were. Now a professor of communication studies with a dual appointment in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Ill.,

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

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Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. So your book takes on a much broader topic, the datafication of our daily lives and the human rights implications of that phenomenon. But death is not really part of that framework.