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Tesla AI Day 2022: livestream link posted online, Optimus teaser released

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The Texas-based company tweeted a teaser of the Optimus Bot recently, building up anticipation for this year’s AI Day. Tesla AI Day 2 will feature “hardware demos” and tons of technical details: Elon Musk. Elon Musk noted that Tesla has a lot of hardware demos planned for the event. Tesla AI Day is only hours away!

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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

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The magazine was successful in its aim, but it also demonstrated that it takes a very determined driver and an elaborate set of procedures to bypass Tesla’s driver-monitoring systems. . The magazine’s team seemed to have buckled in the driver’s seatbelt without a person sitting in the seat. Only it didn’t.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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In 1977, he wrote an article for Kilobaud: The Small Computer Magazine describing the “Sublogic Three-Dimensional Micrographics Package” he had created, which brought 3D to microcomputers outfitted with the popular Motorola 6800 microprocessor. “It This gave subLogic a cheat sheet to build on. Artwick was right.

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DALL-E 2’s Failures Are the Most Interesting Thing About It

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When unveiling the system, Google announced that it would not be releasing code or a public demo due to risks of misuse and generation of harmful images. That policy of limited public testing stands in contrast to Google’s policy with its own just-released text-to-image generator, Imagen.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The 20 PARC employees were housed in a small, rented building, “with rented chairs, rented desks, a telephone with four buttons on it, and no receptionist,” recalled David Thornburg, who joined PARC’s General Science Laboratory fresh out of graduate school in 1971. MAXC set a pattern for PARC: building its own hardware.

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