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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. When are we going to have full (level-5) self-driving cars? He’s also turned it into a book. I’ve read it. It’s superb.

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U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

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And it’s cheap—there’s not a lot of competition with anyone looking to buy mercury. government has agreed to adhere to the Minamata Convention’s provisions because it already has similar laws on the books. Mercury is heavier than either xenon or krypton, the most commonly used propellants, meaning more thrust per expelled ion.

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4 Things to Consider When Installing Your EV Charger

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Your charger mediates a high quantity of electricity from your house or apartment building into your car. Moreover, if any issues arise with the EV battery and you need the manufacturer to fix it, you could need the certificate to prove that it is the car, not the charger, that isn’t functioning properly.

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4 Things to Consider When Installing Your EV Charger

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Your charger mediates a high quantity of electricity from your house or apartment building into your car. Moreover, if any issues arise with the EV battery and you need the manufacturer to fix it, you could need the certificate to prove that it is the car, not the charger, that isn’t functioning properly.

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

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Adapted from the book BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell. But the technology that I needed to make it happen—reliable low-cost communications, cheap screens and processors—didn’t exist yet. They were buying a $249 thermostat—they were expecting a different kind of experience. Problem solved.

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Mad Power thoughts

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It comes upon us when we have barely started ripping out our gas boilers to make way for the expensive and inefficient heat pumps the Government is telling us to buy, or building the costly new power stations that will be needed to charge the electric cars we will all soon require. Gas is the only answer. What would I do?

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

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Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books. As they planned to buy whatever hardware they needed after they had perfected their programming language, they focused first on Jam. As noted earlier, one was a cheap laser printer. Today, even Hewlett-Packard Co.

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