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Fifty years after Xerox PARC's vision of a malleable computer, the combination of an open system, an AI colleague, and an AI-aware editor has finally realized that promise, according to a personal acc…

Ethernet, the most widely deployed wired networking standard, was named after the discredited 19th-century concept of luminiferous ether. Robert Metcalfe deliberately chose the name in 1973 to emphasi…