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Robotic Rat Climbs, Crawls, and Turns on a Dime
Alan DeRossettPutin propaganda is dividing opinions on Elon Musk for helping Ukraine and standing up to the Fossil fuel industry.
Walter LynsdaleI’m all for people making billions through technical advancement (teslas, space X rockets, the dojo chip are all pretty cool), but he comes out with a fair amount of double speak:
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Demand for Low-End Laptop CPUs Is Tanking
“Some pullback was expected, but the return to pre-COVID volumes was instantaneous rather than gradual,” he added. Other research firms including Canalys also report demand for Chromebooks has taken a sharp dive in recent months.
McCarron added: “Due to the decline in low-cost entry level shipments, the market average CPU selling price increased the most on-quarter in 23 years.” The average selling price is now at $168, up from $151, according to Mercury Research’s stats.
Private Ax-1 mission’s ISS departure delayed to Tuesday evening
The four Ax-1 astronauts will get to spend about 12 extra hours on the orbiting lab.
The first-ever fully private crewed mission to the International Space Station will get to spend 12 extra hours aboard the orbiting lab.
The four astronauts of Ax-1, a mission organized by Houston company Axiom Space, had been scheduled to depart the station in their SpaceX Dragon capsule at 10:35 a.m. EDT (1435 GMT) on Tuesday (April 19) and splash down off the coast of Florida early Wednesday morning (April 20).
SpaceX Crew-4: Launch date, crew, mission goals of
If all goes according to plan, Jessica Watkins will become the first African-American woman to make a prolonged ISS stay.
Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about
Elon Musk talks to Chris Anderson, head and curator of the TED media organisation, about the challenges facing humanity in the coming decades – and why we should be more optimistic.
They discuss climate change, clean energy, electric vehicles, the rise of AI and robotics, brain-computer interfaces, self-driving cars, the revolutionary potential of reusable rockets and the forthcoming missions to Mars, as well as the other projects he is working on.
Musk, who has an estimated net worth of $273 billion, provides insight into his work ethos and status as the world’s richest man. He also clarifies the accuracy and thought processes behind his future predictions.