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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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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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Ford and Intel demonstrate in-car personalization with perceptual computing; Project Mobii

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The joint research project, called Mobile Interior Imaging, or Project Mobii, explores how interior-facing cameras could be integrated with sensor technology and data already generated within and around the vehicle to create a more personalized and seamless interaction between driver and vehicle that transforms the driving experience.

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

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Velizy Villacoublay, France and Munich: Dassault Systemesand BMW Group have embarked on a long-term strategic partnership to develop BMW Group’s future engineering platform featuring Dassault Systemes ’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform at its core.

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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 execs are taking up the mantle of social media comms — to the EV community’s delight

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As Elon Musk continues to post about issues he personally feels strongly about on X, Tesla executives appear to have taken up the mantle of handling the EV maker’s social media communications. A “Tesla Twitter after Musk” seems to be emerging of sorts. And so far, the electric vehicle community is loving it.

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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. For decades, scientists and engineers have attempted to distill aspects of human visual perception into better ways of computing the loss function. The reconstructions also provided valuable insight about the important visual priorities of humans.