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Tesla owner implants a chip to unlock his car and more

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Brandon Dalaly, a Tesla owner, has a unique way of unlocking his car: with his hand. However, for the second one which is what is used to unlock his Tesla, his hand was anesthetized with lidocaine. Brandon is actually beta testing the chip he uses to unlock his Tesla. The first thing I wanted to know was how bad it hurt.

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The environmental impact of electric cars

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If you’re looking at electric cars , environmental impact is probably high on your list of priorities. Are electric cars better for the environment? That’s why the UK Government has banned the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030. There are plenty of benefits of making the switch to driving an electric vehicle (EV).

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Editorial: GM’s CarPlay resolution is daring however extremely dangerous

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To make sure, aiming squarely at era behemoth Apple is a daring technique, despite the fact that now not a book one. GM follows EV chief Tesla and upstart competitor Rivian Car in locking Apple out of the middle stack and the entire decent knowledge dwelling there.

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Dr. ChatGPT Will Interface With You Now

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He and ended up writing a book about it with Peter Lee , Microsoft’s corporate vice president of research and incubations, and Carey Goldberg , a science and medicine journalist. What I didn’t share in the book is that it argued with me. You described in the book your first impressions. The popular phrase was Dr. Google.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Latimer literally wrote the book on electric lighting at Edison’s urging: Incandescent Electric Lighting: A Practical Description of the Edison System was published in 1890 by the Van Nostrand Company, a leading publisher of trade, technical, and scientific books in the 19th century.

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Volvo EX30 EV takes a page out of Tesla’s design book

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With only a week or so away from Volvo EX30’s official debut , the European car maker shared a few tidbits about the electric vehicle’s design. Much like Tesla’s voice controls, the Volvo EX30 is built with Google for hands-free help from Google Assistant, Google Maps, and Google Play.

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L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity

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In those books and numerous other works, he wove together magic, adventure, and nature into fantastic tales that were beloved of children and adults alike. The book plays up both the promise and the perils of what was still a very new technology. The American writer. Occasionally, Baum also drew inspiration from technology.

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