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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. At IBM plants in San Diego, Endicott, N.Y, and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,

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Researchers map CO2 emissions for entire Los Angeles Megacity to help improve environmental policymaking

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Animated graphics help people visualize their city and their personal emissions to illustrate how their actions are affecting the environment in which they live. The Los Angeles megacity—the third-largest metropolitan area in the world—occupies 4,850 square miles and houses more than 18.5 million people. —Professor Gurney.

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‘AI Pause’ Open Letter Stokes Fear and Controversy

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“AI can be manipulated by a programmer to achieve objectives contrary to moral, ethical, and political standards of a healthy society,” says IEEE Fellow Duncan Steel , a professor of electrical engineering, computer science, and physics at the University of Michigan , in Ann Arbor. “I

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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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He and colleagues at University of California, San Diego delivered what he called an “an open and transparent assessment” of Google’s reinforcement learning approach. In Circuit Training and Morpheus, a separate algorithm fills in the gaps with the smaller parts, called standard cells. Kahng was reviewer #3.)

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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

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Ohio State University. Iowa State University. University of Pittsburgh. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Penn State University Park. University of Washington, Seattle. Advances for the Production of Low‐Cost Electric Drive vehicle Motors (Area of Interest 5). Description. Federal funding.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Binghamton University (State University of New York). Binghamton University (State University of New York). Tesla Motors, Inc.

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6G Is Years Away, but the Power Struggles Have Already Begun

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There are as yet no widely agreed upon technical standards outlining 6G's frequencies, signal modulations, and waveforms. tech giants will surely be involved in 6G standards development, none of those companies make the equipment that will comprise the network. And here's the biggest wrinkle: Because there are no major U.S.

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