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Mother’s Day Gift Guide: Nostalgic Beach Supplies, Egg Cups and More

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I start each day in the garden when I can, gathering stems and branches to bring light and life into the house,” she says. Mociun landed on the idea six years ago, when she designed a pendant for her husband as a wedding gift. It’s why I wear jewelry and why I like making jewelry; it fits into my idea of a walking altar.”

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The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper

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This 1980s earworm of a jingle touted a gadget to turn your lights, your TV, or any other electrical device on or off with the clap of your hands. Still, Pedott liked the idea of the gadget, and after the original investors went bankrupt, he bought the patent and hired engineers to fix the glitches. The Clapper!” The only problem?

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North America’s largest lithium mine is full steam ahead – it just got a $2.26B loan

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Photo: Nevada Division of Environmental Protection Great news for EVs: Lithium Nevada got the green light for a $2.26 The DOE’s Loan Programs Office says in its Thacker Pass loan announcement that “developing this project will strengthen domestic battery supply chains and reduce reliance on unreliable foreign sources.”

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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

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But you can see, that is the government really coming in and, actually, what has often been a very personal decision of programmers, like, “What language do I use?” Cass: No, it is this idea of interdependence and these very systems that are all coupled in all kinds of ways we don’t expect. They exempted certain areas. Cass: Yeah.

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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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AI Has Created a Battle Over Web Crawling

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A new report from the Data Provenance Initiative , a volunteer collective of AI researchers, shines a light on what’s happening with all that data. It’s the supply chain of the data itself. Do you give credence to the idea that we may be at peak data ? Longpre: Exactly. Or do you feel like that’s an overblown concern?

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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Based on what he learned, he and three classmates built a solar-powered 6-kilowatt minigrid that supplied power to about 60 homes in a village. The support from IEEE gave us validation, and that helped us to believe in ourselves and the ideas we came up with,” Orajaka says. He began researching how solar energy technology worked.

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