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Porsche testing blockchain applications in cars

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The car becomes part of the blockchain, making a direct offline connection possible—i.e., This process ensures that all activities are documented in the blockchain in a way that prevents them from being modified, and can be viewed using an app. All activities are documented in the blockchain, making deletions transparent.

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Tomorrow’s AI Will Reason Like Humans, IBM Watson Developer Predicts

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for 33 years before he joined Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., After graduating from high school at the top of his class, he earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1975 from the University of Tehran , then a master's degree in EE from Imperial College London in 1976. as vice president for research.

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. They put together documentation on how the minigrid worked, created a budget, and applied for a grant from the IEEE Foundation. “I

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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. 1962 and Ph.D.

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The Vacuum Tube’s Forgotten Rival

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V-2 rockets it used to rain destruction on London. Four hundred experts sifted through billions of pages of documents and shipped 3.5 Universal Images Group/Getty Images. Amplistat , CGS Laboratories’ Increductor , Westinghouse’s Cypak (cybernetic package), and Librascope ’s Unidec (universal decision element).

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