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This town is going to cover its cemetery with solar canopies

Baua Electric

Éric Boquaire, the president of Brier’energie, told pv magazine France that the 8,000-square-meter (86,111-square-foot) canopy will consist of 5,000 solar panels. Since it’s a “ collective self-consumption ” project, residents are paying €5 ($5.20) to buy in. I personally think this project is innovative. million ($3.6

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Tesla tweaks financing product with best resale value guarantee and lower monthly payments

Green Car Congress

Buying a Model S through the Tesla financing offering now comes with a guarantee that the resale value will be higher than that of BMW, Audi, Mercedes, Lexus or Jaguar. As with the prior resale guarantee, this higher number is also backed personally by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. —Tesla Co-founder & CEO Elon Musk.

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6 Podcasts About the Joys and Perils of the Great Outdoors

Baua Electric

Starter episode: “Mark Agnew, An Adventurous Mind” Outside magazine has been a go-to source for sophisticated adventure travel writing for more than four decades, and its podcast expands on that tradition, using sound effects and first-person narration to tell immersive, gripping stories about endurance in nature.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

Cars That Think

You said then that you wanted an artificial general intelligence to exist—in fact, you said it had always been your personal motivation for working in robotics and AI. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee? Didn’t at all.

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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

Cars That Think

Gerard “Gus” Gaynor says he knew he would become an engineer when he was 7 years old, inspired by his father’s monthly Popular Mechanics magazines. We couldn’t afford to pay [US] $350 to buy a machine at that time, so we had to build our own,” he says. Paul, Minn. Section in 1962 that he became more involved. members’ careers.

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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

Cars That Think

On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next." Its physical design, the minimalist layout, the screen with playlists, and the easy-access buttons made it successful, and the iTunes store made it easier for people to discover and buy music and organize it into personal playlists.

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How to Have a Greener Christmas?

Driivz

The most sustainable option for a Christmas tree is to buy or rent a live potted tree with roots and replant it after the holidays. If this is not a practical option, buying a real tree rather than an artificial one is the greenest choice. Here are a few ways to make changes this Christmas that will benefit the planet in the long run.