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This dual-steering wheel electric go-kart looks like a fun little divorce on wheels

Baua Electric

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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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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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk , many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be. Cool actuators and simulators.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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Back then, Warnock already had a rough idea how to “Print Anything.” It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. And the right person was Apple founder Steven Jobs, who invented the first, hoped for the second, and told Adobe to tough out the third.

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LIVE BLOG: 2023 Tesla Investor Day

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In past comments, the CEO noted that the “investors” Tesla is referring to in the event are pretty much all life on Earth. It’s crazy how much has changed but most owners have no idea. I’m personally biased for the third-genp platform, but only because I’m a cheap guy by default.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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Corporate Cash The idea of private digital currencies goes back to at least 1994, when the late Edward de Bono wrote of the “IBM dollar.” This is sometimes referred to as “getting the flywheel going”—that is, operating on a large enough scale for the benefits to consumers from network effects to kick in. dollar—and hence to the U.S.

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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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Cerf recounted to IEEE Spectrum three of the mistakes he made while developing the Internet Protocol Suite (more commonly referred to as TCP/IP). Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice? And he’s got some ideas for how to make that happen. He didn’t get everything right, however. or just how important security would be.

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