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IoT-ize Your Old Gadgets With a Mechanical Hijacking Device

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Or, that was the idea, anyway. 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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This dual-steering wheel electric go-kart looks like a fun little divorce on wheels

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Just make sure you get your cheap thrills in quickly. One of my favorite features though is the “drift button”, which I have no idea how it works but it just sounds too cool to pass up. A rather small 24V and 14Ah battery means that this go-kart is here for a good time, not a long time.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. There is nothing special here!” Eronen says. “It

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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. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly. And we’re really good at that.

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Europe may slap retroactive tariffs on Chinese EVs

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Back in October 2023, Europe launched its formal investigation into the Chinese EV industry, as European companies are struggling to compete with the cheap, high-tech Chinese imports, made by low-cost labor, entering the European Union. Get started here. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.

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Tesla bulls conflict as Musk Twitter ‘circus’ continues on

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While his firm was forced to sell Tesla shares several years ago amid its baffling climb to a trillion-dollar valuation to keep diversification level, he refuses to sell any personally held stock. “Stocks are dirt cheap on an absolute basis,” he said. Just because Tesla is down significantly this year, it is not an anomaly.

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