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Time Magazine Person Of The Year 2021 Elon Musk’s Love For Humanity Shines Brightly

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Elon Musk is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2021, and considering all that he has achieved and what he is focusing on, it’s a well deserved award. If you haven’t seen the interview, you can watch it here. The first question Elon answered was something that was incredibly inspiring.

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This town is going to cover its cemetery with solar canopies

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What’s neat about this project is that it will do more than generate clean energy and provide shade. Éric Boquaire, the president of Brier’energie, told pv magazine France that the 8,000-square-meter (86,111-square-foot) canopy will consist of 5,000 solar panels. I personally think this project is innovative.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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You said then that you wanted an artificial general intelligence to exist—in fact, you said it had always been your personal motivation for working in robotics and AI. We see a person do something, and we know what else they can do, and we can make a judgement quickly. Or, how far can a person throw a Frisbee? Didn’t at all.

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According to Fortune magazine’s cover story this week, BYD’s cost-cutting moves so far include hiring people to assemble batteries instead of buying the $100,000 robotic arms used by Japanese competitors, flying executives in coach for business travel and putting them up in suburban rentals instead of posh downtown hotels for events.

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What are some New Year’s Resolutions I can make to help the environment?

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Life is full of choices–choose to make the earth a better place to live Reduce Personal Carbon Emissions Another resolution that many of us can make is to reduce personal carbon emissions. Support community groups and environmental organizations, and join in local clean-up efforts or conservation projects.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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For 20 years, until the mid-1990s, joining Kim’s lab was essentially the only way for aspiring semiconductor engineers in South Korea to get hands-on training; KAIS was the only university in the country that had able teachers and proper facilities, including clean rooms for assembling high-quality chips. Favorite periodical: TIME magazine.

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Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

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Opener’s highly unusual, single-seat flier is intended for personal use rather than transporting passengers, which makes it almost unique. Previously, Moore led a team at NASA that designed a personal-use eVTOL and then served as engineering director at Uber’s Elevate initiative. It’s also a triumph of engineering. We love that.”.

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