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M-97 is a state trunkline highway in the U.S. state of Michigan . It runs from Detroit to north of Mt. Clemens following Groesbeck Highway. The highway starts south of 7 Mile Road and runs northeasterly through Macomb County suburbs to Hall Road, which takes the place of 20 Mile Road in the Mile Road System . In between the termini, Groesbeck Highway runs through suburban residential and commercial areas.

Groesbeck Highway is named after Alex Groesbeck , former Michigan governor and attorney-general. The road was constructed starting in the 1920s to provide traffic relief to Gratiot Avenue , which was the main route between Detroit and Mt. Clemens. It was created as a state trunkline to facilitate construction financing. The final extension was opened at a ribbon cutting ceremony in 1949. This ceremony also dedicated the entire roadway in the former governor's honor after sections were named for another politician by the state. ( Full article... )

Interstate 194 ( I-194 ) is a 3.4-mile-long (5.5 km), north?south auxiliary Interstate Highway between downtown Battle Creek and I-94 in the southern portion of the city. The highway has been designated the Sojourner Truth Downtown Parkway by the state after the abolitionist Sojourner Truth , who was active in the Battle Creek area. Locals refer to the freeway by its semi-official nickname, " The Penetrator ". I-194 is the only three-digit spur or loop route off I-94 in the state of Michigan and runs concurrently throughout its length with M-66 , which continues both north and south from the termini of I-194. The freeway was initially opened in 1961 and completed in its current form in 1966. The highway was named in 1976 for Truth in honor of her local connections to the area. ( Full article... )

The Digital HiNote was a series of laptop computers manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from 1994 until 1998 and by Compaq from 1998 until 2002. It was generally positively reviewed by technology journalists. The series consisted of the VP and Ultra models which were based on the i486 , Pentium , Pentium MMX and Pentium II . After Digital was acquired by Compaq in 1998, the series was phased out. ( Full article... )

Bow Back Rivers or Stratford Back Rivers is a complex of waterways between Bow and Stratford in east London, England, which connect the River Lea to the River Thames . Starting in the twelfth century, works were carried out to drain Stratford Marshes and several of the waterways were constructed to power watermills . Bow Creek provided the final outfall to the Thames, and the other channels were called Abbey Creek , Channelsea River , City Mill River , Prescott Channel , Pudding Mill River, Saint Thomas Creek, Three Mills Back River, Three Mills Wall River and Waterworks River .

The rivers have been subject to change over centuries, with Alfred the Great diverting the river in 896 to create a second channel, and Queen Matilda bridging both channels around 1110 by paying for the construction of Bow Bridge. ( Full article... )

Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand is a 2011 non-fiction book about climate-change denial , coauthored by Haydn Washington and John Cook, with a foreword by Naomi Oreskes . Washington had a background in environmental science prior to authoring the work; Cook, educated in physics , founded (2007) the website Skeptical Science , which compiles peer-reviewed evidence of global warming . The book was first published in hardcover and paperback formats in 2011 by Earthscan , a division of Routledge .

The book presents an in-depth analysis and refutation of climate-change denial, going over several arguments point-by-point and disproving them with peer-reviewed evidence from the scientific consensus for climate change . The authors assert that those denying climate change engage in tactics including cherry picking data purported to support their specific viewpoints, and attacking the integrity of climate scientists . Washington and Cook use social-science theory to examine the phenomenon of climate-change denial in the wider public, and call this phenomenon a form of pathology . ( Full article... )

King's Highway   15 , commonly referred to as Highway   15 , is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario . It travels north from an interchange with Highway 401 in Kingston to Highway 7 in Carleton Place , a distance of 114.7 kilometres (71.3 mi). In addition to Kingston and Carleton Place, the highway provides access to the Eastern Ontario communities of Joyceville , Seeley's Bay , Morton , Elgin , Crosby , Portland , Lombardy and Franktown . Prior to 1998, Highway   15 continued north from Carleton Place, passed Almonte and through Pakenham , to Highway 17 in Arnprior .

Highway   15 was one of the original highways created by the province in 1920 to establish a highway network and qualify for funding under the Canada Highways Act . The southern terminus, originally in Seeley's Bay, was moved to Highway 2 in Kingston the following year. While the northern terminus has shifted numerous times, the southern terminus has consistently remained in Kingston since 1921. Initially, Highway   15 connected Smiths Falls with Carleton Place via Perth. The assignment of the Trans-Canada Highway during the 1950s led to a major renumbering scheme in 1961 that redirected the highway concurrent with Highway 29 via Franktown. ( Full article... )

The Simca Vedette is an executive car , manufactured from 1954 to 1961 by French automaker Simca , at their factory in Poissy , France . The Vedette competed in France's large car market at a time when the economy was finally returning to growth and enjoyed moderate success with its American style finished off by the Italian designer Rapi . It was marketed with different model names according to trim and equipment levels. The Vedette was Simca's largest model at that time, and it went on to spawn a more economical version, the Simca Ariane .

Simca acquired the Poissy factory from Ford France (Ford Societe Anonyme Francaise, the French subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company ), along with the model line, in 1954. The Vedette was therefore initially still marketed as the Ford Vedette . ( Full article... )

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google . Accessible worldwide, YouTube launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen , Chad Hurley , and Jawed Karim , three former employees of PayPal . Headquartered in San Bruno, California , United States, it is the second most visited website in the world, after Google Search . YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users, who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and as of 2021, there were approximately 14 billion videos in total. ( Full article... )

ChatGPT is a chatbot and virtual assistant developed by OpenAI and launched on November 30, 2022. Based on large language models (LLMs), it enables users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language. Successive user prompts and replies are considered at each conversation stage as context. ( Full article... )

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta . Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin , Andrew McCollum , Dustin Moskovitz , and Chris Hughes , its name derives from the face book directories often given to American university students. Membership was initially limited to Harvard students, gradually expanding to other North American universities. Since 2006, Facebook allows everyone to register from 13 years old, except in the case of a handful of nations, where the age limit is 14 years. , Facebook claimed almost 3 billion monthly active users. As of October 2023, Facebook ranked as the 3rd most visited website in the world , with 22.56% of its traffic coming from the United States. It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s. ( Full article... )

WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger ) is an instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by technology conglomerate Meta . It allows users to send text , voice messages and video messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content. WhatsApp's client application runs on mobile devices , and can be accessed from computers. The service requires a cellular mobile telephone number to sign up. In January 2018, WhatsApp released a standalone business app called WhatsApp Business which can communicate with the standard WhatsApp client. ( Full article... )

Google LLC ( / ? ? uː ? ? l / ^ⓘ , GOO -gh?l ) is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising , search engine technology, cloud computing , computer software , quantum computing , e-commerce , consumer electronics , and artificial intelligence (AI). It has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world" and is one of the world's most valuable brands due to its market dominance , data collection, and technological advantages in the field of AI. Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc. is one of the five Big Tech companies, alongside Amazon , Apple , Meta , and Microsoft . ( Full article... )

Elon Reeve Musk ( / ? iː l ? n / ; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and investor known for his key roles in space company SpaceX and automotive company Tesla, Inc. Other involvements include ownership of X Corp. , formerly Twitter, and his role in the founding of The Boring Company , xAI , Neuralink and OpenAI . He is one of the wealthiest people in the world ; , Forbes estimates his net worth to be US$210 billion. ( Full article... )

Meteor Lake is Intel's codename for the first generation of Intel Core Ultra mobile processors, and was officially launched on December 14, 2023. It is the first generation of Intel mobile processors to use a chiplet architecture which means that the processor is a multi-chip module. Tim Wilson led the system on a chip development for this generation microprocessor. ( Full article... )

Twitter was an American social networking service that was rebranded as X in 2023. Established in March 2006, it grew to become one of the world's largest social media websites and the fifth-most visited website in the world . It was launched in July 2006, and its creators Jack Dorsey , Noah Glass , Biz Stone , and Evan Williams , established Twitter, Inc. in San Francisco , California, as its managing company in April 2007. ( Full article... )

A viral video is a video that becomes popular through a viral process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites such as YouTube as well as social media and email . For a video to be shareable or spreadable, it must focus on the social logics and cultural practices that have enabled and popularized these new platforms. ( Full article... )

Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [ O.S. January 6, 1705] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath : a leading writer , scientist , inventor, statesman , diplomat , printer , publisher , and political philosopher . Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States ; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence ; and the first postmaster general . ( Full article... )