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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. engineers were forming hobby clubs to learn about the new machines.

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In Tesla Autopilot probe, US prosecutors focus on securities, wire fraud – ET Auto

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Tesla videos demonstrating the technology that remain archived on its website say: “The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. courts previously have ruled that “puffery” or “corporate optimism” regarding product claims do not amount to fraud. He is not doing anything.

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Honda begins joint research with Boston University in information security for AI; secure MPC

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In order to enable AI to cooperate with people, personal information about the users must be collected and analyzed. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering of Boston University as one strategic partner for joint research collaboration. This information must be protected. Honda noted.

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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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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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This story is as much about luck and guts as about matters of principle and brilliant software engineering. Still, this story is as much about luck and guts as about matters of principle and brilliant software engineering. Thereupon the typical PARC engineer would simplify the image.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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His Vodafone team worked on technologies that would limit the use of personal data for advertising and “eyeball-grabbing, because they are very disruptive and can incentivize the spread of disinformation. The tokens, along with using smart contracts to reduce legal fees, would make real-time exchange and monetization feasible, he says.

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AlixPartners study finds post-crisis auto industry facing new set of challenges; sales projected below historical levels for foreseeable future

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Meanwhile, according to an AlixPartners survey of 1,000 Americans regarding their views of the US economy and their personal economic situations, 83% said they had delayed or planned to wait at least a year to buy a vehicle. The differentiators for winning in the world we are transitioning to will be significantly different from the past.