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Questions to Ask Before Insuring Your EV

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This article may contain affiliate links. If your EV is stored in your home garage, you might be concerned about how it will affect your insurance if your vehicle catches fire. Most standard house insurance policies will cover house fires. Questions to Ask Before Insuring Your EV.

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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. You wrote a famous article in 2017, “ The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Prediction. “ And it’s really cheap.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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That goal led ultimately to a page description language called PostScript, today the de facto standard of desktop publishing. This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." proved loath to support a truly standard language. It appeared in the May 1988 issue of IEEE Spectrum. s laser printers.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. Then, as electricity entrepreneurs expanded power generation and transmission capacity, they faced the new problem of what to do with all the cheap off-peak, nighttime electricity they could now produce.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

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Complete plans for the Galaksija were first published in 1983 in an article in the computer magazine Računari u vašoj kući as a joint venture between the Galaksija’s designer, Voja Antonić , and the magazine’s editor, Dejan Ristanović. (An An English translation of the article was published by No Starch Press in 2018 in PoC||GTFO Vol.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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Those guys don’t have the wherewithal to finance a battery-electric truck that costs twice as much as a diesel truck, and they’re usually buying third- or fourth-owner diesels anyway, that are super-cheap. Iron phosphate batteries are great because they’re durable, they’re cheap. So WattEV is going to offer truck-as-a-service.

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UK, Saudi team shows hydrocarbon wax is a viable, safe medium for on-board hydrogen storage

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Similarly, rechargeable organic liquids—used to store hydrogen in a liquid carrier form—must be handled with great care as several react violently with strong oxidants, have fire and explosion hazards and, in certain cases, carry toxicity concerns from occupational exposure. Gonzalez-Cortes et al. Click to enlarge. Thomas & P.

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