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Ford, Argo AI, and Walmart to launch autonomous vehicle delivery service in three US cities

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Ford Motor Company, Argo AI and Walmart are working together to launch an autonomous vehicle delivery service in Miami; Austin, Texas; and Washington, DC—Walmart’s first multi-city autonomous delivery collaboration in the US. Walmart previously tested with Ford in Miami in 2018.

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Over 5.8k Tesla investors representing $4.1 billion are speaking out in support of Elon Musk

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Thousands of retail Tesla ( NASDAQ:TSLA ) investors have banded together to express their support of CEO Elon Musk’s and his 2018 compensation plan, which was rescinded by a Delaware judge last week. Now Austin bound. Would like the Board to design a new CEO Compensation Plan along the lines of the 2018 Plan.

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Elon Musk will focus on advancing Tesla Service

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Austin Hinson shared a screenshot on Twitter of an appointment change by Tesla and pointed out that it wasn’t fair that Tesla would charge him $100 to change his appointment within 24 hours. Elon Musk agreed with Austin and said that Tesla should credit owners $100 if Tesla changes appointments with less than 24 hours notice.

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AI and Machine Learning Salaries Drop

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salaries for software engineers with expertise in machine learning, for example, jumped 22 percent in 2019 over 2018, then went up another 3.1 In 2021, as in 2020, major tech companies touted plans to relocate from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas. This comes on the heels of repeated—and sometimes dramatic—increases in recent years.

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UH, Toyota researchers develop new cathode and electrolyte for high-power Mg battery rivaling Li-ion

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This new class of redox chemistry bypasses the need of solid-state intercalation while solely storing magnesium, instead of its complex forms, creating a new paradigm in magnesium battery electrode design.

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Kicking It With Robots

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On page 40 of this issue, Peter Stone—past president of the RoboCup Federation, professor in the computer science department of the University of Texas at Austin, and executive director of Sony AI America—captures some of that unbridled enthusiasm and gives us the history of the event.

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AT&T reaches speeds above 10 gigabits/second in 5G lab trials; enabler for autonomous driving

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AT&T has reached speeds above 10 gigabits per second in early lab trials with Ericsson, according to Tom Keathley, senior vice president – wireless network architecture and design, AT&T. AT&T expects 3GPP will likely complete the first phase of standards-setting process in 2018.

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