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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

Cars That Think

In a December 2019 Wired magazine interview, Jerome Pesenti, Facebook's Vice President of AI, suggested that even for a company with pockets as deep as Facebook's, this would be financially unsustainable: When you scale deep learning, it tends to behave better and to be able to solve a broader task in a better way.

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

Cars That Think

Tesla had indeed pursued the idea of somehow using the ground and atmosphere as a conduit for long-distance power transmission, a plan that went nowhere. To underscore how safe the system was, the host of the BBC science program “ Bang Goes the Theory ” stuck his face fully into a power beam. Naval Research Laboratory.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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Corporate Cash The idea of private digital currencies goes back to at least 1994, when the late Edward de Bono wrote of the “IBM dollar.” During a House Financial Services Committee hearing in October 2019, Representative Maxine Waters D-Calif.) dollar—and hence to the U.S. Netflix is AWS’s largest customer.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

Tarun started EV Gyan in 2019, when he was in the process of researching EVs. I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. The original idea was three wheeler rickshaw battery swapping. The initial Idea was to have a 70-30 gender split, but then Bhavesh asked why not a 100 percent female workforce?

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