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Elon Musk is TIME Magazine’s 2021 Person of the Year

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Elon Musk has been dubbed by TIME Magazine as its 2021 Person of the Year. The award, which the magazine gives to an individual or group who most shaped the previous 12 months, for better or worse, has been ongoing for nearly a century. elonmusk is TIME’s 2021 Person of the Year.

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Opinion: Consumer Reports’ Tesla Autopilot stunt crossed a line in an already-heated EV climate

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The magazine was successful in its aim, but it also demonstrated that it takes a very determined driver and an elaborate set of procedures to bypass Tesla’s driver-monitoring systems. . The magazine’s team seemed to have buckled in the driver’s seatbelt without a person sitting in the seat.

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Celebrating 25 Years of IEEE Women in Engineering

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IEEE Women in Engineering , formed 25 years ago, now has more than 35,000 members and 1,000 affinity groups worldwide. To mark its 25th anniversary, the group is planning competitions, panels, seminars, and other events this year. In November 1997 IEEE rolled out the Women in Engineering group. Both women and men can join.

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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

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Gerard “Gus” Gaynor says he knew he would become an engineer when he was 7 years old, inspired by his father’s monthly Popular Mechanics magazines. Gaynor’s group also developed equipment for testing a streetcar’s exhaust and battery levels. As his fascination with different engineering fields grew, he set out to explore them.

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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

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She was inspired by her parents, who worked in biology, and by her reading of physics journals and engineering and science magazines. I was amazed at the safety precautions the company takes, especially for the employees’ personal safety,” she says. Ansari entered the field of power engineering during her final semester as a Ph.D.

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‘AI Pause’ Open Letter Stokes Fear and Controversy

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In the news media, the open letter has inspired straight reportage , critical accounts for not going far enough (“ shut it all down ,” Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote in Time magazine), as well as critical accounts for being both a mess and an alarmist distraction that overlooks the real AI challenges ahead.

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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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We shouldn't overly rely on focus groups. Media News Group/Getty Images. On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next." People have criticized Jobs's personal traits. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them," he said. "We

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