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Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

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For the first time, these instruments establish a legal threshold beyond which models will be deemed “dual use” or “systemic risk” technologies. For the first time, these instruments establish a legal threshold beyond which models will be deemed “dual use” or “systemic risk” technologies. However, the E.U.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Emblematic of the hope, faith, perseverance, and drive to overcome systemic legal and social barriers the song encapsulates is the life of self-taught technical genius Lewis H. But the existential dread associated with being a Black man without documents certifying that he was free became more pitched when the U.S.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Meanwhile, legal scholars and civil-society groups are asking whether a hands-off border can really keep Europe’s hands clean. The main reason is because the E.U. million people.

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How One Bad Manny Can P**s Away Your Brand

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And do you think anyone at Leviton bothered to even Google me? Hello Joe, I was asked by the Director on this project if you can send me via e-mail the 10 Year Warranty so that she and Legal can review it. I scanned the 16 pages of original documents and emailed them the same day. Applications Engineer, Technical Services.

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How Police Exploited the Capitol Riot’s Digital Records

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According to charging documents, at 10:57 that evening, a PayPal account registered to a Gmail address paid US $84.72 One of these warrants, served on Google and covering the interior of the Capitol, showed that a device associated with the Gmail account in question entered the Senate Wing door at 2:18 p.m. on 6 January.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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After several years of court battles and hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, Trek won that case, persuading the judge that his ThumbDrive was the first device ever designed to be plugged directly into a computer without the need for a cable. His son, Wayne Tan, continues as Trek’s deputy chairman.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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A Google search didn't yield an answer to that question. In fact, it's rare enough that Google didn't autocomplete the word even with 15 of its 19 letters typed in. It's buried deep in documents like PubMed articles and patent filings. Deep Learning can help researchers pull that data out of those documents.