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The Tesla of vans? Renault and Volvo create Flexis to revolutionise electric light commercial vehicles

EV Central

Hoping to repeat what Tesla did for electric cars, but for vans, the key to the success of the new Flexis brand that is also bankrolled by a French shipping and logistics firm CMA CGM is a bespoke dedicated architecture that will offer cutting edge EV tech. The post The Tesla of vans?

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Challengers Are Coming for Nvidia’s Crown

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Because otherwise they can’t have fun, even if they have the best model,” says Jennifer Prendki , head of AI data at Google DeepMind. Prendki is less reliant on Nvidia than most, as Google has its own homespun AI infrastructure. Not everyone is going to buy [these computers]. And Google is no longer alone.

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Opinion: The Bentley Crash in New York is Scrambling Brains

The Truth About Cars

Though he ignores the other reasons a wealthy person might buy a Bentley – style, creature comforts, as an indication of socioeconomic status, and so on. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be allowed to buy a car that has a high potential top speed. A world where even a lowly $20K car isn’t too strictly speed-limited by on-board tech.

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Road Test: 2023 Lexus UX 250h Premium FWD

Clean Fleet Report

The target customer may be someone buying their first Lexus and their first luxury car, a combination Lexus wants to take the lead in reaching. The arrowhead-shaped triple beam LED headlights, fog, daytime running and cornering lights frame the grille, which sports the Lexus “L” badge in blue, signifying this Lexus is electrified.

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Are You Still Using Real Data to Train Your AI?

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How things look in the physical world is the physics of how light interacts with matter, so we simulate that. I might have sensors on Mars that ingest the real world and send over a copy of that info to Earth in real time—or eight minutes later or whatever it takes for the speed of light to travel from Mars.

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Are Homemade CPUs Alibaba’s Bid For Independence?

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But, impressive as that feat is, an even more significant chip design development by the Chinese tech giant may be making available the source code to a RISC-V CPU core its own engineers designed. Unable to buy Intel chips because of the sanctions, Huawei most recently sold its x86 server unit to a company owned by China's Henan province.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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The sense I’m getting is that Optimus isn’t as bad as people thought, but also, nobody [in the robotics community] is very impressed or surprised by any of the tech. Roboticist, Google Brain. That’s simply not where the tech is now and it’s not where it’s going to be in the next 10 years, I will say with complete confidence.

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