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History of the GEM Car and a Look at Its Future

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Global Electric Motorcars (GEM) has pioneered neighborhood electric vehicles (EVs), demonstrating a prosperous past and promising future. While it has a bright future, the GEM lineup has come a long way since its start 30 years ago. What’s the GEM Car’s Future? What if you took it to the next level with electrification?

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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. With that, the preeminent U.S. Press coverage of the announcement was lukewarm.

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

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It’s sometime in the near future. Your brother raises the idea of remembering Dad at his best through a startup “digital immortality” program called 4evru. Consider that Microsoft has a patent for creating a conversational chatbot of a specific person using their “social data.” The chatbot would then talk “as” that person.

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

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Eliza Strickland: Hi, I’m Eliza Strickland for IEEE Spectrum ‘s Fixing the Future podcast. Wendy, thanks so much for joining me on Fixing the Future. And so the idea of datafication is simply to say that our lives are not just lived in the analog or physical world, but that actually they’re becoming digital.

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Tesla bull weighs in on Delaware Court decision against Musk’s TSLA comp plan

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A legal complaint against Musk’s pay package was filed in 2018 by Richard Tornetta , a thrash metal drummer and car enthusiast who held nine shares at the time. Reactions to the Delaware Court’s decision have been significant among Tesla shareholders.

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AI Has Created a Battle Over Web Crawling

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Longpre: The tragedy of this is that robots.txt is machine-readable but does not appear to be legally enforceable. Whereas the terms of service may be legally enforceable but are not machine-readable. Do you give credence to the idea that we may be at peak data ? You have to trust that the crawlers will respect it.

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Open-Source AI Is Good for Us

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In 2024, that clash is spilling over into the law, and it has major implications for the future of open innovation in AI. 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. exemptions for open-source development.

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