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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. Sandford decision , ruled that an enslaved person was not made free by entering a state whose laws forbid slavery. Alamy In a piece of personal correspondence with Booker T.

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

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. A later version of that tester, based on an Alto personal computer, also developed at PARC, ended up being used by Intel itself on its production line. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Laser printers.

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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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