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New Elon Musk essay: Tesla CEO’s current thoughts on technology and humanity

Teslarati

The new Elon Musk essay was published in China Cyberspace , the Cyberspace Administration of China’s (CAC) flagship magazine. In a way, the publication of the new Elon Musk essay in the CAC’s flagship magazine is significant. Thank you for the invitation from China Cyberspace magazine. Posted by Elon Musk.

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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

Cars That Think

On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next." Its physical design, the minimalist layout, the screen with playlists, and the easy-access buttons made it successful, and the iTunes store made it easier for people to discover and buy music and organize it into personal playlists.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

Folks here already know what’s going on with the environment and how EVs fit into the big picture.” We usually choose the grocery stores and malls that have installed chargers.” A guy with pictures of his car in hot rod magazines understands.” We show up at a parking lot and we’ll shoot the breeze.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

Cars That Think

A decentralized cloud would minimize the need to use third-party services to manage and store data on people and business enterprises. The HEC can allow consumers to better control how their data is stored, shared, and monetized, Alamouti says. Alamouti, cofounder and executive board chairman of Mimik , in Oakland, Calif.,

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

Such an architecture stores data as it is received, stacking it like a pile of books. They intended both to sell this setup as a turnkey system and to franchise the publishing equivalent of a one-hour photo store. Desktop publishing, though, was not what Warnock and Geschke at first had in mind. Window on PostScript” in MacWeek , Feb.

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This Autonomous Robot Might Soon Make Food Deliveries in Airports

Cars That Think

Today Ottobot is being piloted not only by restaurants but also grocery stores, postal services, and airports. The lidars provide geometric information about the environment. A store or restaurant employee loads the ordered items into Ottobot. Ottonomy, which has raised more than US $4.5

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SwRI to showcase Ranger precision localization technology for automated driving; non-GPS system with 2cm precision

Green Car Congress

Ranger images the unique “fingerprint” of road surfaces by matching thousands of distinguishing ground features, such as aggregate, cracks and road markings, to corresponding features collected and stored in a map. Once a map is built, localization is performed by matching a live image frame to an image frame stored in the map.

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