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Advice and Resources for Tech Workers Coping With Job Loss

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Tens of thousands of tech workers have been laid off by companies recently, including at Amazon , Dropbox , GitHub , Google , Microsoft , and Vimeo. Beef up your tech and leadership skills with online courses Although Xu isn’t a financial advisor, he says the first thing to do when you lose your job is to “slim down financially.”

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Dell’s Bold Idea: A Laptop You Can Actually Repair

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In December 2021, just before CES, the world’s leading tech event, Dell introduced Concept Luna , a reimagining of the laptop PC that focuses on repairability. The motherboard, among the most resource-intensive components, is shaved to a quarter of its typical size. Instead, many components lock into place.

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Tesla no longer AI training compute constrained: Elon Musk

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Musk’s comments were posted as a response to noted tech author and futurist Robert Scoble , who stated in a post on X that Tesla AI is “very underrated.” Scoble’s comments carry some weight, considering his presence in the tech sector since 1993 and his experience with self-driving technology.

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The UK's ARIA Is Searching For Better AI Tech

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If I’m a world-class AI researcher, I basically have to choose whether I go work for a very large tech company that has the compute resources available for me to do my work or go raise 100 million pounds from some investor to be able to do cutting edge research. So maybe we can dive into some specific ideas of what those are.

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QUT, Ford researchers find way to tell autonomous vehicle which cameras to use when navigating

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The key idea here is to learn which cameras to use at different locations in the world, based on previous experience at that location. Dr. Punarjay (Jay) Chakravarty is leading the project on behalf of the Ford Autonomous Vehicle Future Tech group. Resources. 10112-10119, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3191174.

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India, US working on tech to process critical minerals – ET Auto

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The idea is to identify and develop specific processing technologies for critical minerals through which institutions and laboratories could work together, people in the know said. If the deal goes through, it will be in addition to the US-led Minerals Security Partnership (MSP), a grouping of 14 nations including the European Union.

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Georgia Tech team simulates risks of hacked connected vehicles; stalling 20% of cars could gridlock Manhattan

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They simply want to give security experts a calculable idea of the scale of a hack that would shut a city down. The researchers do have some general ideas of how to reduce the potential damage. Split up the digital network influencing the cars to make it impossible to access too many cars through one network. Yunker, Jesse L.

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