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MAY 7, 2022
For most of the 10 years that I idly thought about thermostats, I had no intention of building one. 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.
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MAY 17, 2023
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. Will companies marketing large language models every justify the enormous valuations some of these companies are now enjoying?
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DECEMBER 30, 2016
Projection of the map data; on the right side the lanes are mapped onto Google Earth. The VMP is a VLIW SIMD processor, with cheap and flexible memory access, provides hardware support for operations common to computer vision applications and is well-suited to multi-core scenarios. The car is driving based on the map alone.
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OCTOBER 4, 2022
What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! Interest in building such systems is welcome because Tesla and Elon Musk’s involvement in the problem brings attention, talent, and resources to the problem, setting in motion a flywheel of progress. Roboticist, Google Brain. If you pre-order 100K+ units.’.
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DECEMBER 26, 2023
In 2022, a schism in the chip design world and at Google erupted into the open. At issue was a reinforcement-learning AI system that Google uses to do a key step in laying out chunks of logic and memory for its AI accelerator chips, or TPUs. Universities Are Building a Semiconductor Workforce Peter Adams With the U.S.
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DECEMBER 29, 2023
The upside is that a lot of work is being put into making these new satellite constellations more secure , even though it will likely take a lot of rethinking about how to design and build the thousands upon thousands of satellites that make up these growing networks. 5G Networks are Performing Worse. What’s Going On?
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FEBRUARY 4, 2022
If it were legal to deliver rescued migrants to Libya, it would be as cheap as sending rescue boats a few extra kilometers south instead of east. Now Hawkeye 360 is on track to have 30 satellites in orbit by early 2023, the company says. Meanwhile, the European Union spends at least €2 billion (US $2.13 For example, one E.U.-funded
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