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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

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You also wanted to know how semiconductors will play a part in combating climate change. In 2022, a schism in the chip design world and at Google erupted into the open. At issue was a reinforcement-learning AI system that Google uses to do a key step in laying out chunks of logic and memory for its AI accelerator chips, or TPUs.

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Opinion: The Bentley Crash in New York is Scrambling Brains

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He later takes the film to task for how it shows the deaths of drivers in wrecks caused, at least in part, by excessive speed. If Dan Kois wants us to live in a world where we all drive cheap, underpowered cars that are limited to 85 mph, he has that right. Expensive luxury/performance cars? Americans driving like crazy people?

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Revolutionizing rider safety: The protective jacket every e-biker should consider

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As someone who doesn’t own a car and thus rides daily out of necessity, it’s a big part of my life and I want to be transparent about what that means. And yes, I know about degloving accidents (please don’t google that). While this stuff ain’t cheap by any stretch of the imagination, frankly neither is surgery.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! Roboticist, Google Brain. cognitive part of the AI they will need, beyond the basics of motor control (which Boston Dynamics already does so well), nor much recognition about why robotics is so hard in the real world. BACK TO TOP ↑ ]. Keerthana Gopalakrishnan.

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Rental Review: 2023 Toyota Corolla LE, Aged Basic Transportation

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Although it looks cheap, the feel of the door handle is more premium than you might expect. Outside the LE there’s a constant reminder of base trim via some very cheap-looking plastic wheel covers. Worth reporting: Android Auto sometimes refused to connect to a phone (Google Pixel 6a). Not a big negative, but worth a mention.

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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. Why would I bother to do that, you ask? I can just send the whole picture to the cloud and keep it forever. That, however, isn't really true.

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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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This article is part of our special report on AI, “ The Great AI Reckoning.”. It had 400 light sensors that together acted as a retina, feeding information to about 1,000 "neurons" that did the processing and produced a single output. Each side thought it was on the path to artificial general intelligence.

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