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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

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Or, that was the idea, anyway. KAIST/Korea Polytechnic University The paper doesn't directly address the cost of the MHD, and with three motors and some other electronics in it, it's not likely to be super cheap. I'd expect it to cost at least USD $100, although perhaps it could get somewhat cheaper in volume.

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Amazon’s Astro is a Mobile Alexa and Cup Holder that Costs $1k

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It costs $1,000. Astro can move autonomously around your home, navigate to check in on specific areas, show you a live view of rooms through the Astro app, or even send alerts if it detects an unrecognized person. I like the periscope idea, despite how fragile it looks. Astro's got wheels. It's got cameras. It's got a screen.

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Kinetic Green ropes in Piyush Pandey to re-create ‘Chal Meri Luna’ magic | Autocar Professional

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Pandey has been assigned the task to capture the magic of the yesteryear brand with a multimedia campaign that will feature commercials on television, digital platforms, and a strong below-the-line marketing effort so consumers in rural and semi-urban areas can test drive the car and book it on the spot.

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What Are Zero Emission Day and National Drive Electric Week?

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Wallace came up with the idea to give the earth one day free from fossil fuel emissions. Attend an online or in-person event. EVs require less maintenance and therefore have lower maintenance costs. Fast forward to 2008 and Wallace started taking advantage of the internet’s ability to reach vast amounts of people simultaneously.

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The UK's ARIA Is Searching For Better AI Tech

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Bramhavar’s program aims to develop new technology to make AI computation 1,000 times more cost efficient than it is today. Genkina: So your program wants to reduce AI training costs by a factor of 1,000, which is pretty ambitious. And to train a modern large-scale AI model costs somewhere between 10 million to 100 million pounds now.

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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

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But you can see, that is the government really coming in and, actually, what has often been a very personal decision of programmers, like, “What language do I use?” Cass: No, it is this idea of interdependence and these very systems that are all coupled in all kinds of ways we don’t expect. They exempted certain areas. Cass: Yeah.

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