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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. Sandford decision , ruled that an enslaved person was not made free by entering a state whose laws forbid slavery.

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Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

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This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. Advanced technology, prototype vehicles, and business plans are being developed by Google, car sharing services like Car2Go (Daimler), Uber, automakers, network providers, software and technology suppliers.

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

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A lot of companies that keep data, big tech, like a lot of the companies we know and are familiar with, like Google and Meta , they’re going to have to decide what to do with all these data about people once they physically die. I mean, it’s possible to replicate that person when they’re living too, in a digital way. Are they people?

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BMW Group Launches car sharing service “ReachNow” in Seattle

Green Car Congress

ReachNow selected Seattle as the pilot market for its interest in welcoming greener mobility services that make life easier for its residents. Members can then return the car to any legal parking space on the street, including for free at meters and within residential permit zones in the Home Area.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear. MB of data. Clones, in a sense, are marvelous….it

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Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

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The heads of OpenAI and Google have both openly discussed the need for regulations. And do you also worry about algorithmic bias and automated decision-making systems that may be used in judicial systems, or legal systems, or medical contexts, things like that? Wald: Yeah. Wald: Absolutely. The third part of this is talent. Wald: Yeah.

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BMW’s ReachNow car sharing expands to Brooklyn, launches pilot programs for new mobility services

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ReachNow is available via the App Store and on Google Play. Following the initial test phase, ReachNow will expand the pilot program to current members in the local market. Cars can be returned to any legal parking space on the street within the city’s designated Home Area. for each minute the vehicle is used, and $0.30

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