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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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But the existential dread associated with being a Black man without documents certifying that he was free became more pitched when the U.S. In 1879, a then-married Latimer moved with his wife Mary, his mother, and his brother William to Bridgeport, Connecticut, on the advice of his sister Margaret.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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A high-speed network that connects computers, printers, and other peripherals in an office or building. After all, what use was a screen that could show documents in multiple type styles and a network that could transmit them from place to place without some means of printing them efficiently? Local area network.

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Glencore to pay >$1.1B to resolve government’s investigation into bribery and commodity and price manipulation

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pled guilty in the District of Connecticut to a commodity price manipulation conspiracy. According to court documents filed in the District of Connecticut, Glencore Ltd. According to court documents, between approximately September 2012 and August 2016, Glencore Ltd. Together, Glencore and Glencore Ltd., The FCPA Case.

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Twitter Files part 14 sheds light on “Russian bots” and #ReleaseTheMemo

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Taibbi, who was given access to the internal documents at Twitter by Elon Musk, released a new installment on Thursday. Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal also wrote a letter. The Twitter Files part 14, written by independent journalist, Matt Taibbi, shed light on a false narrative of Russian bots and the hashtag #ReleaseTheMemo.

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