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United to buy 15 supersonic aircraft from Boom; option for 35 more; optimized for 100% SAF

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Overture will also be designed with features such as in-seat entertainment screens, ample personal space, and contactless technology. Overture’s order book, including purchases and options, stands at 70 aircraft; Boom is working with the United States Air Force for government applications of Overture.

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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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Volvo Car Corporation intends to lead in field of autonomous driving technology; targeting the next-generation of consumers

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Autonomous driving—the self-driving car—gives the human driver the ability safely to do something else besides drive, such as sending text messages or reading a book while the car drives itself. But being in a car that drives by itself while the driver reads a book is still quite a revolutionary thought for many people.

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We buy a used Porsche Taycan! Bargain price, 1000km road trip and charging dramas

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I’ve come along to help with the buying/selling bit (I’m a car person) as it’s relocating from NSW to QLD, and my accountant – let’s call him Alan – doesn’t know how all this public charging stuff works. The post We buy a used Porsche Taycan! There’s a lesson there, kids.

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Teslas are worth longer term auto loans, study finds

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Kelley Blue Book recently released figures that showed the average price of a new car in the United States is $45,031. Drivers are flocking to Teslas, and once they buy them, there is no turning back. On average, Tesla drivers have an auto loan term of 67.1 months, slightly more than Ram at 66.3 months, Kia at 64.8 months, GMC at 64.6

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Cyberbackpack inventor extends Musk-esque offer to Tesla employees

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The inventor of the Cyberbackpack is extending an Elon Musk-esque offer to Tesla employees, offering a discount at a familiar value to any company worker who wishes to buy a backpack based on the Tesla Cybertruck design. We are doing what we can to help Elon buy Twitter. Non-Tesla employees, you can buy the Cyberbackpack here.

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L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity

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In those books and numerous other works, he wove together magic, adventure, and nature into fantastic tales that were beloved of children and adults alike. The book plays up both the promise and the perils of what was still a very new technology. The American writer. Occasionally, Baum also drew inspiration from technology.

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