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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly. And we’re really good at that.

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The Rise of Groupware

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But they are the outgrowth of years of hard work done before the Internet became a thing, when there was a thorny problem: How could people collaborate effectively when everyone’s using a stand-alone personal computer? The new personal-computing technologies clearly needed to do more to foster collaboration.

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Where VR Gaming Took a Wrong Turn

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One early reader of Luckey’s posts was John Carmack , lead programmer for several of the most influential first-person shooter games, including Doom and Wolfenstein. Carmack, far beyond anyone else, pioneered the genre of hardcore games with his first-person shooter games.

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Remembering the Legacy of Trailblazing Technologist Gordon Moore

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Intel microprocessors now power personal computers made by major manufacturers including Dell , HP , and IBM. His original hypothesis, published in a 1965 Electronics magazine article , was that the number of transistors would double each year. His projection came true over the decade that followed.

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Powered By IEEE Program Saves Startups Money

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Running a startup isn't cheap. I saw a massive niche in the market that no one was filling, and I believe I am the right person to make products to fill that niche. Elijah says access to journals and magazines in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library is helping him keep up to date on advances in his field.

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Non-bike bike gear tested: HoverAir X1 is the cyclists’ drone I’ve been looking for

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And sometimes it’s just nice to grab some third-person shots of myself on the bike, or capture cool drone angles of the places I ride for fun. Not magazine quality, but pretty good for a pocket-sized flying camera! And I’m glad I did, because this is my new main go-to riding drone.

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The Sneaky Standard

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Personal computing has changed a lot in the past four decades, and one of the biggest changes, perhaps the most unheralded, comes down to compatibility. Ebbing demand for personal computers has slowed innovation in advanced PCs. And some are as cheap as high-end PCs. Intel’s chips face another challenge, too.

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