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Bill Ford outlines “Blueprint for Mobility”, calls for automotive and telecommunications industries to collaborate to address coming personal mobility crisis

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Ford envisions a future of intelligent vehicles and a smart transportation system that will tie all modes of travel into a single network and payment system. Public and personal transportation will be fully integrated to save time, conserve resources and lower emissions. Despite this, car buying is growing at a rate of 7.5%

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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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Supercomputing’s Future Is Green and Interconnected

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Building Henri Getting and keeping the top Green500 spot The future of Henri and its successors Powering science IEEE Spectrum: Where did the name Henri come from? So, we were asked by the vendor if we might consider naming it after that person, which we thought was sweet. The future is going to be expensive.

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‘Hatchbacks are here to stay; no guarantee that SUVs will remain popular in the future’: RC Bhargava | Autocar Professional

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The Chairman of Maruti Suzuki India Limited who is also a seasoned veteran in the auto industry spanning over four decades, firmly advocates that for India to progress into a developed nation, accessible mobility options are imperative. For 170 million people who use two-wheelers for mobility, how will they remain mobile in the future?

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J.D. Power: Consumer sentiment on future mobility technologies lags far behind automakers plans

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Consumer confidence in future mobility technologies lags far behind automakers’ plans to bring self-driving and battery-electric vehicles to the marketplace, according to the J.D. Lack of knowledge is a huge roadblock for future adoption. Power 2020 Q1 Mobility Confidence Index Study fueled by SurveyMonkey Audience.

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The Day the U.S. TV Industry Died

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But at about $1000, the flat tube is not a consumer product and instead is benefiting Zenith’s latest focus of interest-its relatively new and highly profitable personal computer business. The Evolution of Zenith (and the TV Industry) 1918. Zenith enters the TV receiver business, buying Rauland of Chicago, a picture tube manufacturer.

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Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

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Opener’s highly unusual, single-seat flier is intended for personal use rather than transporting passengers, which makes it almost unique. Previously, Moore led a team at NASA that designed a personal-use eVTOL and then served as engineering director at Uber’s Elevate initiative. So who might buy it? To me, that’s unacceptable.”

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