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Tesla AI Day 2022: livestream link posted online, Optimus teaser released

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The Texas-based company tweeted a teaser of the Optimus Bot recently, building up anticipation for this year’s AI Day. The teaser Tesla recently posted shows the company’s progress with the design of Optimus’ hands and hints at the design of the entire robot. Tesla AI Day is only hours away!

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Michigan State University Receives $2.5M ARPA-E Award to Build Wave Disc Engine/Generator for Series Hybrid Applications

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The award will allow a team of MSU engineers and scientists, led by Norbert Müller, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, to begin working toward producing a vehicle-size wave disc engine/generator during the next two years, building on existing modeling, analysis and lab experimentation they have already completed.

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Blink Charging Celebrates Women in the Electric Vehicle Industry

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an EV charger repair company, are passionate advocates for diversity and inclusion in the EV field. Ellis also contributed to the Environmental and Energy Studies Institute’s Congressional briefing, Building Out Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure.

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LEAF – Made in the UK

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. “Japanese car manufacturer Nissan announced today that it would build its new energy efficient electric car, the Nissan Leaf, in the UK. The company had already made a pledge to invest around £178 million ($273 million) in a new manufacturing plant in Sunderland, in the north-east of England.

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Q&A With Co-Creator of the 6502 Processor

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The processors and their variants are used as microcontrollers in commercial products, and they remain popular among hobbyists who build home-brewed computers. TI : Why do you think the original 65x series is still popular, especially among people building their own personal computers ? on the weekend of 8 October.

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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

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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

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Wires also challenge electric utilities: These companies must take pains to boost the voltage they apply to their transmission cables to very high values to avoid dissipating most of the power along the way. Perhaps the most dramatic demonstration of safe laser power beaming prior to our team’s effort was by the company.

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