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RCA’s Lucite Phantom Teleceiver Introduced the Idea of TV

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Although television technology had been in development for decades, and the BBC had been airing live programs since 1929 in the United Kingdom, competing technologies and licensing disputes kept the U.S. RCA president David Sarnoff’s speech at the 1939 World’s Fair was broadcast live. television market from taking off.

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Tesla AI Day 2022: livestream link posted online, Optimus teaser released

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In a 2014 BBC article, Dr. George McGavin explained that human hands evolved into the five-digit pattern we see today. The same idea applies to Optimus, given the myriad of potential tasks Tesla’s humanoid robots might perform in the future. Our hands’ design allows for a powerful grip.

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Drones with Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump into the Air

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EPFL Back in 2019, we wrote about a South African startup called Passerine which had a similar idea, albeit more focused on using legs to launch fixed-wing cargo drones into the air. The concept of incorporating jumping take-off into a fixed-wing vehicle is the common idea shared by both RAVEN and Passerine,” says Shin.

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Q&A With Co-Creator of the 6502 Processor

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The surge of interest in retrocomputing has led to folks once again swapping tips on how to write polished games using the 6502 assembly code, with new titles being released for the Atari , BBC Micro , and other machines. But I did leave them with the idea of, "Look, if I can do it here … there are two of you; there's one of me.".

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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

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In a January 2020 interview with the BBC, Yoshua Bengio said that "AI's abilities were somewhat overhyped. I think we can expect the same sort of idea explosion to happen in deep learning, and artificial intelligence more broadly, as the crutch of simply scaling to larger neural networks becomes a less viable path to progress.

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Environmentalists fight for green domain

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According to the BBC , rival consortiums are preparing bids to control the.eco domain. “We’re two different applicants with two different business ideas,&# Minor Childers, co-founder of Dot Eco, told BBC News. Environmental groups are preparing to try to take control of a new net domain designed for green groups.

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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.” Elements of this idea bear a relationship to an initially underappreciated benefit of blockchain technology—the financial innovation known as initial coin offerings. dollar—and hence to the U.S.