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LiDAR startup lured Tesla’s VP of Legal away with $30m compensation package

Teslarati

lured Tesla Vice President of Legal Alan Prescott away from the Austin-based electric vehicle leader with a massive $30 million compensation package. Prescott left Tesla last April after just under four years to join Luminar as the company’s Chief Legal Officer. Tesla loses VP of Legal to LiDAR startup Luminar.

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Chips to Compute With Encrypted Data Are Coming

Cars That Think

I think this is the coolest technology of the last 20 years,” says Todd Austin , a hardware security expert at the University of Michigan, whose startup Agita Labs does a different form of secure computing in the Amazon and Microsoft clouds. “It And when that’s the case, why would you do it any other way? “I

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Who Really Invented the Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery?

Cars That Think

Oxford takes the handoff In 1976, John Goodenough [left] joined the University of Oxford, where he headed development of the first lithium cobalt oxide cathode. The University of Texas at Austin It was the first of many false starts for the rechargeable lithium battery. But he found no takers.

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Gone in Thirty Seconds: Super Bowl LVIII Auto Commercial Pre-Game Roundup

The Truth About Cars

It’s been reported that a thirty-second spot during The Big Game is now going for seven million dollars – insert GIF of Austin Powers sniffing his pinky here – so the roster of automakers ponying up for airtime is a bit thin. We likely will never have another shared broadcast moment like the finale of M*A*S*H, so The Super Bowl is it.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

May, 2009 : Testifying at a public hearing conducted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Stanford University professor Mark Jacobsen urged the EPA to incorporate black carbon into calculations of greenhouse gases. “ Internationally, we reject legally binding emissions. Earlier post.)

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