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Something else happened in January 2000 that made people uneasy about the tech world: On January 13, the world's richest man handed over the keys of the world's biggest tech company to a guy who would later become famous for dancing like a monkey. Bill Gates' Microsoft, of course, was...
could allow anyone to instantly tap into what seemed to be an endless source of knowledge simply by typing in a prompt—and then continue the conversation as if hanging out with a fellow human who just happened to know everything, albeit one with a penchant for fabrication. within openai, ...
What happened? CrowdStrike, which sells security software designed to keep systems safe from external attacks, pushed a faulty"sensor configuration update"to the millions of PCs worldwide running its Falcon Sensor software. That update was, according to CrowdStrike, a "Channel File" whose function...
The period also saw Apple bring out updates to the M3 Apple Silicon lineup, specifically to theMacBook Airrange. Analysts will also want Apple's opinions on other things that happened in the period that could affect the company's position. For example, antitrust lawsuits aga...
Founded in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1962 under the name “Thrift D Discount Center,” Rite Aid went public under its current name in 1968. Rite Aid was almost purchased by Walgreens in 2015, but because of antitrust issues only around half of stores were eventually sold to Walgreens in Ma...
and maintaining sufficient inventory to satisfy the resulting customer demand. All of the complexity and innovation that happened in the background was in service of each store’s merchandising efforts. The satellite communication system helped headquarters make sure that inventory was always in stock,...
Nicholson:Anytime we’ve had a huge technological leap forward, there’s been an argument over how to control it and who deserves to benefit. It happened with steam technologies, farm implements and airplanes. Software is no different in that regard. I personally hope we get to a place wher...