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Tesla Cybertruck design and build challenges will yield ‘great’ pickup, Musk says

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk detailed the design and build challenges that were presented to the automaker with the development of the Cybertruck, its upcoming all-electric pickup. The Cybertruck was first unveiled by Tesla in November 2019 and was slated to begin initial production roughly one year later. ” Musk said.

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Novel Li-metal electrode design could lead to more powerful solid-state batteries

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Researchers at MIT and their colleagues are proposing a new design for electrodes that, based on the long-sought goal of using pure lithium metal as the anode, could lead to longer-lived batteries with higher energy densities. We designed this structure that gives us three-dimensional electrodes, like a honeycomb. —Ju Li.

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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. In addition to testing self-driving technology in Pittsburgh, Detroit and Palo Alto, Calif.,

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Tesla’s Cybertruck delay may have been caused by design finalization

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Tesla’s production of the all-electric Cybertruck may have been pushed back due to design finalization by company engineers who have been modifying the vehicle’s dimensions and look. It appears that Tesla may have been working on finalizing the design of the Cybertruck, and this instance may have caused the delay.

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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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NSF awards $2M to Rice U collaboration to explore direct conversion of CO2 into fuels

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Since joining the Rice faculty in 2019, Wang has developed a catalytic reactor that uses carbon dioxide as its feedstock. We include experts in catalysts and electrolyzer design, polymer engineering, density functional theory simulations and carbon dioxide capture. We address both materials-level design and device-level engineering.

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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. percent in 2020 from 2019, the average cybersecurity analyst salary fell 0.8