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Nov 4, 2021

VW ID Buzz Spied Again, This Time As Self-Driving Test Vehicle

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The gallery also contains a very clear shot of its interior which shares most visible parts with other ID-badged models.

Nov 4, 2021

Tesla is moving driver profiles to the cloud for smooth transitions between cars, rentals, and more

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Tesla is working on moving driver profiles to the cloud in order to sync them between vehicles.

It will make it easier for owners of multiple Teslas and for people renting or sharing Tesla vehicles.

Over the last few years, Tesla has been making moves to build a smooth experience for a self-driving and car-sharing future.

Nov 4, 2021

China Now Has Over 1 Million Public Charging Points

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China is the world largest electric vehicle market and not surprisingly, has the world’s highest number of charging points.

According to the China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance (EVCIPA) (via Gasgoo), as of the end of September 2,021 there were 2.223 million individual charging points in the country. That’s a 56.8% increase year-over-year.

However, this is the total number, which consists of over 1 million publicly accessible points, and an even higher number of almost 1.2 million private points (mostly for fleets, as we understand).

Nov 4, 2021

Velocity raises $17M to spin up ‘production-like’ environments for software development

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Velocity, a startup developing a platform that allows developers to test and debug apps prior to production, has raised $17 million.

Nov 4, 2021

China is working on the fastest supercomputer, ever

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It looks like China is building Skynet, with plans for a prototype exascale computer to be built this year.

Nov 4, 2021

A model that translates everyday human activities into skills for an embodied artificial agent

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This could hopefully be used to train robot hands how to handle everyday objects, a billion times over.


Over the past decade or so, many roboticists and computer scientists have been trying to develop robots that can complete tasks in spaces populated by humans; for instance, helping users to cook, clean and tidy up. To tackle household chores and other manual tasks, robots should be able to solve complex planning tasks that involve navigating environments and interacting with objects following specific sequences.

While some techniques for solving these complex planning tasks have achieved promising results, most of them are not fully equipped to tackle them. As a result, robots cannot yet complete these tasks as well as agents.

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Nov 4, 2021

Criminal AI

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Nov 4, 2021

Marine Corps will use AI to revamp recruiting and retention models

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His views on the talent management system are roughly similar: there will be some new costs intended to be covered by savings elsewhere, though he admits he’s not sure yet whether the service will see a net savings or if the additional costs may mean it fields a smaller force.

“We haven’t figured it all out yet,” Berger said. “Our premise is we can’t afford not to do this. Whether it comes out plus in the black or the red, we don’t know yet.”

The Marine Corps would spend more money on higher salaries for higher-ranked Marines. It would spend more money on bonuses and benefits to entice qualified Marines to stick around. It would have to pay for digitized personnel systems and the AI tools and decision aids. However, it would spend less on personnel who process new recruit applications, if it were bringing in fewer Marines and screening fewer candidates.

Nov 3, 2021

China is Preparing its Citizens for War — You Should Not Ignore This!

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A video on possible examples of how a government can try to manipulate is populace. It may be good to be more aware of its dangers.


Chinese citizens are being told to treat the USA and the Outside world as the Enemy, they’re being prepared for war whilst we tiptoe around worrying about hurting the feelings of the Chinese government… Time to wake up.

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Nov 3, 2021

The Ocean Cleanup begins cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Get updated on the efforts of the organization; “Ocean Cleanup” in cleaning up the oceans. The video also details the technology and systems they are using.


The nonprofit global cleaning crew called The Ocean Cleanup, led by founder and CEO Boyan Slat, announced recently that it had reached viability of its ocean plastic-collecting System 2 technology and plans to begin cleaning plastic pollution in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch immediately while beginning development of System 003.

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