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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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Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

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Over the coming years, generative AI will support creative, analytic, and scientific applications that go far beyond today’s text and image generators; we’ll see such applications as personalized tutors, desktop healthcare assistants, and backyard film studios. Yet the AI ecosystem is more than a handful of corporate labs.

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BMW Group Launches car sharing service “ReachNow” in Seattle

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Members can then return the car to any legal parking space on the street, including for free at meters and within residential permit zones in the Home Area. Car sharing for residential and corporate groups. Renting your own vehicle via ReachNow. Chauffeur service – book a car with a driver.

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Mercedes-Benz presents autonomous Future Truck 2025 research vehicle; “Highway Pilot”

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The sensor and camera technology is active throughout the speed range from standstill to the legally permitted maximum truck speed of 80 km/h. Every vehicle equipped with this in the near future will transmit continuous information to its surroundings, the CAM (Corporate Awareness Message). guard rails or vegetation).

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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I said I would consider it, but that I was really hoping to establish a precedent, legally speaking, beyond Torrance. And by that do you mean they were fronting the costs of the rebates and then not recouping them from the utilities? I’ve been amazed that most companies seem to front the cost, even start ups. That’s correct.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Currently, though history traces today’s microprocessor back to Hoff, Mazor, and Faggin, the legal rights to the invention belong to Hyatt. Besides reducing the cost of the systems to the telephone company, such chips would enable companies to build small branch exchanges that handled switching electronically. Sunnyvale, Calif.,

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Former EPA exec surveys the road ahead for US emissions standards

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What about the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards? California legally should be able to do their own standards under the Clean Air Act. Charged : Once the agencies announce their decision about what standards we’re going to have now, will there be legal challenges? And yes, there could be legal actions.

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