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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

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For decades, our vision of the future has been stuck in a 1960s-era dream of science fiction embodied by The Jetsons and space travel. In fact, what if our vision of that particular technologically advanced future is all wrong? Where everyone had access to preventative health care that was both personalized and less invasive?

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

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We live in an age in which it's cheap to take photos but will eventually be costly to store them en masse, as backup services set limits and begin charging for overages. We created a similarly human-based scheme that we hope will also inspire ambitious future applications. Why would I bother to do that, you ask?

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The i4 EV is now the cheapest lease in BMW’s entire lineup

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BMW is a luxury automaker, so the i4 isn’t a cheap car. The i4’s lease cash isn’t going to disappear anytime soon, making it “an attractive EV to lease for the foreseeable future,” CarsDirect predicts. Photo: BMW The all-electric BMW i4 is currently the most affordable car to lease in the German automaker’s lineup – gas cars included.

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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

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KAIST/Korea Polytechnic University The paper doesn't directly address the cost of the MHD, and with three motors and some other electronics in it, it's not likely to be super cheap. It's also possible to build your own MHD device for cheap , if you know what you're doing.

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Volvo makes its last diesel car and puts it in a museum

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But those days are over now as the company moves toward an all-electric future. He added, “So instead of investing in a shrinking business, we choose to invest in the future – electric.” In the US, diesel never had the same traction, due the abundance of cheap gas. Get started here.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. Rodney Brooks on… Will GPT-4 and other large language models lead to an artificial general intelligence in the foreseeable future?

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Hyundai to launch a new electric mini-SUV at €20K

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The new Casper joins a flood of small, cheap EVs landing in Europe , including Renault’s electric Twingo and Citroën’s ë-C3, not to mention new models coming from BYD and SAIC’s MG Motors. It certainly wouldn’t be a bad thing for the planet’s future. Size-wise, the ICE version of the Casper is only 3.60 meters long (about 11.8

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