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Satellite Signal Jamming Reaches New Lows

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 put Ukrainian communications in a literal jam: Just before the invasion, Russian hackers knocked out Viasat satellite ground receivers across Europe. That may be because one of the temptations of LEO is the ability of relatively cheap new hardware to do smaller jobs. Satellites are becoming smaller.

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10 Graphs That Sum Up the State of AI in 2023

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Large language models don’t come cheap While the power of large language models, like ChatGPT , has increased dramatically, the price of training such models has increased dramatically as well. For those of you as eager to pour through the entire 2023 Artificial Intelligence Index Report as I was, you can dive in here.

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Opinion: The End Of An Era: Is The US Petrodollar Under Threat?

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The reasons for the cozier relationship between the two giant powers are, of course, rooted in the Ukraine crisis and subsequent Western sanctions against Russia, combined with China’s need to secure long-term energy supplies. Rise of the Yuan.

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BMW i Ventures invests in HeyCharge to amplify EV charging rollout at residential locations; Y Combinator alum

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With HeyCharge’s technology, it becomes attractive to install chargers in locations that before would have not been commercially viable. That’s why HeyCharge has made its mission to help get a cheap, commercial, scalable solution to this section of the population. —Kasper Sage, Managing Partner, BMW i Ventures.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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If you want to drown in EV numbers and analyses from around the globe, do subscribe to Jose’s new commercial endeavor EV Volumes (and no, I’m not getting a cut). This year, though, I used his input into the EU-sanctioned eafo.eu more than the original Sales Blog, since it was more detailed and up-to-date.

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