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Driving Dystopia: More Companies Found Covertly Sharing Driving Data, Raising Insurance Rates

The Truth About Cars

With corporate media finally aware of the perils of connected vehicles, we’ve seen a rash of articles exploring how insurance rates have spiked due to automakers sharing user data. The entire business model is predicated upon this, minus the fact that it became a legal requirement to drive in most states by 1970.

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What Can AI Researchers Learn From Alien Hunters?

Cars That Think

Yet AGI, which could emerge soon , remains an elusive and controversial concept. Within industry, where many of today’s AI breakthroughs are happening, companies like OpenAI are actively striving to create AGI, but include research on AGI’s social dimensions and safety issues only as their corporate leaders see fit.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

Cars That Think

In the winter of 1973, corporate managers summoned Whittingham to the company’s New York City offices to appear before a subcommittee of the Exxon board. “I Moreover, company executives thought Whittingham’s concept was unlikely to ever be broadly successful. In contrast, Whittingham’s new chemistry produced an astonishing 2.4

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

Green Car Congress

This article discusses the process by which the UN approves carbon offsets and the flaws associated with this process. This concept is often called “additionality.” THE APPROVAL PROCESS. The approval process for carbon offsets has two goals. Validation requires additionality. what would have happened anyway).

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

Cars That Think

This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." The result, called Jam, for John and Martin, proved the concepts he brought from Evans & Sutherland were appropriate for laser printing. Gee,’ I said, ‘A secret standard—I find this a hard concept to understand.’” of Cupertino, Calif.)

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

Cars That Think

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. This article was first published as “Of Mice and menus: designing the user-friendly interface.”

Design 140
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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

Cars That Think

This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News. and a major user of microprocessors, was looking for a vice president of corporate technology.

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