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Regulatory & Legal Alerts – Dec. 2017

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Peopletrail actively tracks the regulatory and legal environment that surrounds employment and criminal background screening. This new policy does not apply to departments that deal with public safety and it also does not apply to private-sector jobs. The post Regulatory & Legal Alerts – Dec. California. Effective Oct.

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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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Wall Street Journal stands by Elon Musk affair report: “We are confident in our sourcing”

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However, Musk noted in a statement to the New York Post that he had spoken to both Brin and Shanahan, and both were adamant that they were not the source behind the WSJ’s claims. Musk also noted that legal action against the Journal is “futile.” ” Exactly — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 27, 2022.

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Granville T. Woods: Smartest Guy in the Room

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“I think Woods clearly recognized ‘No, I’m the smartest person in the room. One such group agreed to pay for a 10-day trip to New York City so that Woods could drum up interest in the innovations for which the company held patent rights. I think Woods clearly recognized ‘No, I’m the smartest person in the room.

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Study finds ride-sharing companies biggest contributors to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco

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In 2016, TNCs were 15% of all intra-San Francisco vehicle trips, which is 12 times the number of taxi trips, while in New York in 2016, TNC ridership equaled that of yellow cab and doubled annually between 2014 and 2016. They have been referred to by several names, including ridesourcing, ride-hailing, and e-hail.

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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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Driving Dystopia: Automakers Are Selling Your Driving Data to Insurance Companies

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A recent report from The New York Times has accused automakers of selling customer driving data to insurance firms. LexisNexis analyzed that driving data to create a risk score “for insurers to use as one factor of many to create more personalized insurance coverage,” according to a LexisNexis spokesman, Dean Carney.

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