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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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Video Friday: Monocycle Robot With Legs

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In this video, we present Ringbot, a novel leg-wheel transformer robot incorporating a monocycle mechanism with legs. Unitree ] We present an avatar system designed to facilitate the embodiment of humanoid robots by human operators, validated through iCub3, a humanoid developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia.

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Unifrax introduces Battery Advisory Board to support SiFAB silicon fiber anode battery technology

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SiFAB, a scalable proprietary silicon anode battery technology demonstrated in a number of applications, including electric vehicles, power tools, smartphones, personal computers, medical devices and aviation, can deliver up to a 20% increase in gravimetric energy density in lithium-ion batteries versus cells using a graphite anode.

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Can Deepfake Tech Train Computer Vision AIs?

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In their paper presented at the 2022 International Conference on Learning Representations , the MIT researchers asked whether, “given access only to a trained generative model, and no access to the dataset that trained it, can we learn effective visual representations?” These datasets can also be edited, and potentially at scale.

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Phone Keyboard Exploits Leave 1 Billion Users Exposed

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The widespread threats these leaky systems reveal could also present a concerning new kind of exploit for cyberattacks, whether the device uses a Chinese-language keyboard or English keyboard or any other. student at Princeton University and co-author of the report. All in order for a Chinese-speaking person to be able to type.

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Engineers

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The awards are presented on behalf of the IEEE Board of Directors. MADNI University of California, Los Angeles “For pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of innovative sensing and systems technologies, and for distinguished research leadership.” IEEE MEDAL OF HONOR Sponsor: IEEE Foundation ASAD M.

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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center launches 5-year, $35M program on autonomous and connected vehicle technologies

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Since its launch in 2011, CSRC has collaborated with leading North American universities, hospitals, and research institutions on projects aimed at reducing traffic casualties, and sharing the results publicly so that all can benefit. —Chuck Gulash, Director of CSRC. —Chuck Gulash.

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