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Honda begins joint research with Boston University in information security for AI; secure MPC

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Honda Research Institute (HRI), a Honda R&D subsidiary, and Boston University have agreed to begin joint research in the area of data security and privacy for artificial intelligence (AI) research. A first research project will investigate data privacy control using a technology called secure multi-party computation (MPC).

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Avis Budget group to acquire car-sharing company Zipcar in cash deal for approximately $500 million

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Rental car company Avis Budget Group, Inc. has agreed to acquire car-sharing company Zipcar for $12.25 The Boards of Directors of both companies unanimously approved the transaction, and Zipcar shareholders representing approximately 32% of the outstanding common stock have agreed to vote their shares in support of the transaction.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Emblematic of the hope, faith, perseverance, and drive to overcome systemic legal and social barriers the song encapsulates is the life of self-taught technical genius Lewis H. As fate would have it, George was spotted in Boston one day by an acquaintance of the human trafficker who had once held him in bondage.

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

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And yet this transformative invention took nearly two decades to make it out of the lab, with numerous companies in the United States, Europe, and Asia considering the technology and yet failing to recognize its potential. Moreover, company executives thought Whittingham’s concept was unlikely to ever be broadly successful.

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Apps Put a Psychiatrist in Your Pocket

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Nearly every day since she was a child, Alex Leow, a psychiatrist and computer scientist at the University of Illinois Chicago, has played the piano. Such apps can’t legally claim to treat or diagnose disease, at least in the United States. Some days she plays well, and other days her tempo lags and her fingers hit the wrong keys.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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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. the company formed by Apple cofounder Steven Jobs after he left Apple—they are dumped into a Black Hole.

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Tesla Power Play: Why running a contested Elon Musk narrative is playing with fire

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Filled with stories from numerous sources and spanning Tesla’s history from its early days to last year’s pandemic, Power Play painted a picture of how an incredibly determined Elon Musk practically willed Tesla into being, and how his ego and pettiness caused the company to pay the price more than once.

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