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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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The other thing that everybody overlooks, particularly with the PC business, is that it was a beautiful negotiation because it allowed IBM to enter the Chinese market in a way that China would have liked through an existing local company that was already trusted, Lenovo, and that knew how to get around and do stuff in China.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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I didn’t know that word, honestly,” (presumably referring to the word “mayday.”) “And I just heard it freaking coming on that he lost his rudder, that he needed pumps.” According to a 2022 paper , there have been more than 740 judgements in Chinese courts involving voiceprints. Stillwell asked if they had heard the call. “I

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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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Cerf recounted to IEEE Spectrum three of the mistakes he made while developing the Internet Protocol Suite (more commonly referred to as TCP/IP). Secret Service claims to be able to identify an individual from a voice-only line-up, and Chinese courts have taken voiceprints into account in hundreds of judgments already.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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And of course, I'm referring to things like scientific papers, PDF documents. In other words, they were referring to the dark data problem. And so what we realized was that along the way, we had also built a completely novel type of architecture for integrating data and that's referred to as a data fabric. What is dark data?