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Tesla’s standard connectivity gets shortened to eight years in China

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Earlier this month, Tesla stopped offering free lifetime standard connectivity for its newly-purchased vehicles in the United States. It was then only a matter of time before Tesla’s connectivity package in countries such as China was also updated. In the US, Tesla’s premium connectivity service costs $9.99

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own. The handlebar-mounted controls connect with an Arduino, which interprets their settings and translates them into a PPM signal, which is applied to the electronic speed controller.

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A DIY E-bike Conversion on the Cheap

Cars That Think

At the time, e-bikes were still rather exotic, at least in the United States, so it seemed worth the expense and effort to build my own. The handlebar-mounted controls connect with an Arduino, which interprets their settings and translates them into a PPM signal, which is applied to the electronic speed controller.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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Like fighter planes, military drones started cheap, then got expensive. Unlike the fighters, though, they got cheap again. In the early 1950s the United States F-86 Sabre averaged about $250,000 apiece, about $3 million now. Like fighter planes, military drones started cheap, then got expensive.

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Exclusive: FAA Investigates If It's Safer to Leave Cellphones On

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The series of tests, which occurred this summer in the skies over Virginia, used commercial smartphones connecting to standard 4G and 5G wireless networks operated by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, according to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC).

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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

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CHIPS and Science Act set to pump tens of billions of dollars into chip manufacturing in the United States, the question has come up: “Who is gonna work in these new fabs?” Since the IC was invented, all of the metal that connects transistors was formed above the silicon surface.

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Exclusive: FAA Investigates If It's Safer to Leave Cellphones On

Cars That Think

The series of tests, which occurred this summer in the skies over Virginia, used commercial smartphones connecting to standard 4G and 5G wireless networks operated by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, according to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC).