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Elon Musk is TIME Magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year

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Elon Musk has been dubbed by TIME Magazine as its 2021 Person of the Year. The award, which the magazine gives to an individual or group who most shaped the previous 12 months, for better or worse, has been ongoing for nearly a century. elonmusk is TIME’s 2021 Person of the Year.

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

Cars That Think

It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. This was around the same period that AT&T, still smarting from misadventures like the EO Personal Communicator , spun off Bell Labs as Lucent Technologies.

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Review: “Getting Ready for Model 3”

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Discusses and explains what is known about the car’s tech; Considers the decisions that will be required as each owner configures their Model 3; Offers a preview of Model 3’s autonomous driving features; Explains how to develop a personal charging infrastructure for owners of the car; Delineates the costs of ownership; and.

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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs , a tireless tech visionary, an extraordinary innovator, and the cofounder of Apple. Jobs also redefined what a high-tech corporate campus should look like, according to a 2011. On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next." Pixar Animation Studios.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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It’s a textbook example of the mixture of amazement and, especially, anxiety that often accompanies a tech triumph. You said then that you wanted an artificial general intelligence to exist—in fact, you said it had always been your personal motivation for working in robotics and AI. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee?

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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

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The medical and rehabilitative tech is equally impressive — and arguably far more important. AT, in its most basic form, is anything that helps a person achieve enhanced performance, improved function, or accelerated access to information. Wired Magazine refers to this layered reality as the "Mirrorworld." They mean freedom.

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