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LIVE BLOG: Tesla Q1 2024 earnings call

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Elon Musk also personally thanks Viecha for his contributions to the company. The company’s vehicles are loaded with hardware designed for autonomous driving, so it only makes sense to use the vehicles for useful tasks. “Hardware 5 is pretty much designed and should be in cars by the end of next year,” he said.

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LIVE BLOG: 2023 Tesla Investor Day

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In past comments, the CEO noted that the “investors” Tesla is referring to in the event are pretty much all life on Earth. Following is a Live Blog of Tesla’s 2023 Investor Day. Actuators, battery packs, and Optimus’ other key components are custom designed by Tesla. Yes, everyone, Tesla is thinking *that* big.

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The Mythical Non-Roboticist

Cars That Think

The fifth time I heard about a group struggling with this mistake, I decided it was worth a blog post all on its own. Getting robotics to work at all is often at the very limit of what a person can reason about, and requires the flexibility to employ whatever heuristic might work for your special problem. Stop gatekeeping, people.

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Choosing the best EV charger for your electric car

Green Charging

However, we have decided to use the term EV charger in this blog for ease of understanding. You will find out that the companies who sell EVSE refer to them as just EV chargers on their websites. When it comes to picking the best charger type for your electric car, you must opt for the one designed by a top-rated manufacturer.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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Years Later, Alphabet’s Everyday Robots Have Made Some Progress

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There's a new website of questionable design along with a lot of fluffy descriptions of what Everyday Robots is all about. Our headline may sound a little bit snarky, but the headline in Alphabet's own announcement blog post is "everyday robots are (slowly) leaving the lab." But people keep on trying it anyway.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

Green Car Congress

This opinion piece originally appeared in the Field-to-Pump blog, published by Renergie, Inc. ]. The Model T Ford, which debuted in 1908, was originally designed to operate on alcohol. The Model T and Model A Fords were later designed to operate on either alcohol or gasoline or a blend of alcohol and gasoline. by Brian J.