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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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OPEI files legal challenge to EPA E15 misfueling rule

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The Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI), along with automakers and marine manufacturers, filed a legal challenge to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “Regulation to Mitigate Misfueling” rule which was meant to address concerns about 15% ethanol blends in non-road products and older model-year vehicles. Earlier post.).

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BMW M introduces its first high-performance car with electrified drive system: BMW XM PHEV

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The BMW XM is equipped with a plug-in hybrid system comprising a V8 gasoline engine and electric motor that delivers combined fuel consumption of 1.6 – 1.5 Production of the BMW XM will get underway at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg in the USA in December 2022 before it arrives at dealers worldwide in spring 2023.

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Trade groups file petition with EPA to mandate ongoing availability of E10 fuel

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Auto, marine, motorcycle, outdoor power equipment, personal watercraft and snowmobile groups filed a petition today asking the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ensure the continued sale and availability of gasoline blends of no greater than 10% ethanol (E10).

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BMW teams up with Baidu in autonomous driving project in China

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Over the next two years, the BMW Group will build prototype research vehicles for use in highly automated driving trials on Chinese roads. The BMW Group is teaming up with internet giant Baidu as its Chinese partner in this latest ambitious research project. Background.

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Granville T. Woods: Smartest Guy in the Room

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Woods was endowed with intellectual gifts that allowed him, despite no formal engineering study, to become one of the most prolific U.S. inventors in electrical and mechanical engineering during the late 19th century. I think Woods clearly recognized ‘No, I’m the smartest person in the room. Who was Granville T.

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Developing the Next Generation of AI Assistant

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This sponsored article is brought to you by the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Claudio Silva , director of the Visualization Imaging and Data Analytics (VIDA) Center and professor of computer science and engineering and data science at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and NYU Center for Data Science, is doing just that.