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Surfing the Metaverse’s Real Estate Boom

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The purpose of a metaverse DAO might seem straightforward: Buying gives you a stake in the metaverse even if you can’t afford a plot—right? Another spin on the concept can be found at MetaOasis DAO (not to be confused with MetaOasis , a separate metaverse project). Mihai Vicol, Newzoo. Well, that depends.

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GM Unveils EN-V Concepts for Future Urban Mobility

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Group (SAIC) unveiled three models of a concept new vehicle form called EN-V, short for Electric Networked-Vehicle. EN-V is a two-seat electric vehicle designed to alleviate concerns surrounding traffic congestion, parking availability, air quality and affordability for tomorrow’s cities. Earlier post.). The Xiao EN-V model.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). Networks that link personal computers in offices. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” and Toronto, Ont., Laser printers.

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MQB-based 7th gen VW Golf up to 100 kg lighter and 23% more fuel efficient than predecessor; Golf BlueMotion delivers 3.2 l/100km (73.5 mpg US) and 85g/km CO2

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It was therefore important to us to build the most fuel-efficient Golf ever, which at the same time had to remain affordable. By way of comparison: the 18 PS weaker corresponding engine in the already fuel-efficient previous model (90 kW / 122 PS) consumed 6.2 And we’ve succeeded in doing that. Average fuel consumption is 4.8

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. When you have one person designing the whole computer, he knows that a little leftover gate in one part may be used in another part.” It’ll never work.’

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For Better or Worse, Tesla Bot Is Exactly What We Expected

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At the end of Tesla’s 2021 AI Day last August, Elon Musk introduced a concept for “Tesla Bot,” an electromechanically-actuated, autonomous bipedal “general purpose” humanoid robot. I think that it won’t look all that much like the concept images in this presentation. Tesla These quotes are all from Musk. “I

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Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation

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And that includes academia, which historically has had a very vibrant role in this field, but since 2014, what we’ve seen is this slow decline of academia in the space in comparison to where industry’s really taking off. That includes the National AI Research Resource , which I have been personally passionate about for quite a few years.

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