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

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Researchers from the University of Kentucky and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority have determined that, contrary to the concept and vision, transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft are the biggest contributor to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco.

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Granville T. Woods: Smartest Guy in the Room

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Despite his brilliance and relentless industry, Woods is mostly referred to—that is, when he is remembered at all—as “Black Edison.” Davidson, are the subjects of Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation by Rayvon Fouché (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). Edison lost—and immediately offered Woods a job.

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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. So, he was a natural choice when Edison General Electric’s legal department was looking for someone to speak for the company in a spate of patent interference cases.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol. from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol. New York, 1985). Thereupon the typical PARC engineer would simplify the image.

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Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

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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? And I think it refers back to that last point on the recommender systems and the ability for human redress or a human audit of that. Wald: Absolutely.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. Menus list choices of action. Instead, the choices can be called up at a moment’s notice whenever needed.

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Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem

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Similarly, the recent lawsuit that The New York Times filed against OpenAI showed many examples in which OpenAI software recreated New York Times stories nearly verbatim (words in red are verbatim): An exhibit from a lawsuit shows seemingly plagiaristic outputs by OpenAI’s GPT-4. The New York Times v.

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