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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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‘At Tata Motors, we are designing an experience’: Martin Uhlarik | Autocar Professional

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How do you perceive design, and what are the guiding principles for design at Tata Motors? A good design is about being responsible, and being understandable. Automotive design, on the other hand, is an applied art, and caters to a business. The design guide book has a shelf life of 3-5 years, and it keeps evolving.

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Wärtsilä to begin long-term, full-scale testing of ammonia as marine fuel in four-stroke engine

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The technology group Wärtsilä, in close customer cooperation with Knutsen OAS Shipping AS and Repsol, as well as with the Sustainable Energy Catapult Centre, will commence the world’s first long-term, full-scale, testing of ammonia as a fuel in a marine four-stroke combustion engine. Earlier post.)

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BMW Group partners with Dassault Systemes for shared innovations in future engineering – ET Auto

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The two companies have pooled their knowledge and know-how to advance technological innovation in areas including production planning and scheduling, part design and production efficiency. We will only optimize our engineering process if we think digital, work connected and rely on an integrated data.

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This Collection Teaches Engineers How to Protect Data

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Privacy advocates consider the feature, which restricts only iOS app makers from personalizing ads using third-party data, a step in the right direction. Therefore, organizations must consider data privacy and security when developing products that make use of personal data. According to a Pew Research report , 79 percent of U.S.

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Tesla’s Head Product Designer hints at Cybertruck diecast model

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Tesla’s Director of Product Design, Javier Verdura, hinted toward the possibility of a Cybertruck diecast model hitting the online shop for fans and enthusiasts to purchase for their own collections. Verdura has worked at Tesla since 2012 as the Director of Product Design.

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

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But, as engineers, we are trained to ask if we can do better. Cookies are designed to taste delicious, so why measure quality based on something completely unrelated to taste? For decades, scientists and engineers have attempted to distill aspects of human visual perception into better ways of computing the loss function.

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