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The Boring Company’s skeptics need to calm down about the LVCC Loop

Teslarati

” Tech publication Futurism argued that the LVCC Loop is “incredibly inefficient.” One thing that Boring Company critics typically forget is the fact that the LVCC Loop’s tunnels are incredibly cheap and quick to build. ” Even dedicated EV blogs have dismissed the project as “boring.”

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A Cheapskate in Monterey

Baua Electric

“For the last five years, some of our leading chefs have abandoned fine dining and opened artisanal food businesses,” said Deborah Luhrman, the editor and publisher of the food magazine Edible Monterey Bay , who recommended both bakeries. Dreaming up a future getaway or just armchair traveling? Check out our 52 Places to Go in 2024.

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Opinon: Lithium Market Set To Explode; All Eyes Are On Nevada

Green Car Congress

Where future supplies are concerned, investors will be looking closely at Dajin, which is 100% self-owned and operated. If it can post similar success in terms of exploring lithium brine, it could easily pop up as a favorite stock on investors’ radar. And the Tesla gigafactory is just the tip of this overall iceberg.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

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. Rodney Brooks on… Will GPT-4 and other large language models lead to an artificial general intelligence in the foreseeable future?

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Stopping Infection Outbreaks with AI and Big Data

Cars That Think

Steven Cherry Hi this is Steven Cherry for IEEE Spectrum’s podcast, Fixing the Future. Fixing the Future is supported by COMSOL, the makers of COMSOL Multiphysics simulation software. I was surprised by the result, but when you think about it, whole-genome sequencing is relatively cheap. According to the U.S.

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The Soviet-Era, Z80-based Galaksija Dared to Be Different

Cars That Think

As delays kept pushing the delivery of the Crowd Supply kit back into an indefinite future, I ran into Vince at the Vintage Computer Festival East last April, and he slipped me a spare Galaksija printed circuit board and a link to his modern bill of materials. Like many makers, I use a cheap and cheerful TL866-based ROM programmer.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

To survive, help is needed from Italys Fiat but, as negotiations with the Italian automaker bog down and the two week deadline to hammer out a partnership approaches, the companys future - as well as its aspirations for an electric hot rod - are increasingly in doubt. More Miami on the cheap House prices in Miami soared, then crashed.