and now we wait
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tech columnist @ wsj, here to make friends & chew bubblegum (& I'm all out of gum)
Tesla updated its summon feature. Now this owner can’t get to his car.
https://electrek.co/2024/11/04/tesla-updated-its-summon-feature-now-this-owner-cant-get-to-his-car/
Let's start with the premise that all the millions of hours of video Tesla has gathered from its vehicles driving about has any real value to training a self-driving system.
Those best positioned to know say it has almost no value at all.
The reasons why are complex, but well known among self driving AI researchers.
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Is there such a thing as a cozy horror game?
All I want to do as the nights get cooler is curl up with a game in which I get to farm space colonists to produce more alien spawn.
In 1993 Apple released -- and then quickly discontinued -- the greatest ergonomic keyboard in history.
Its introductory price: $500 in today's dollars.
Here’s the result, alongside a reproduction of Franklin’s original model. It doesn’t use a continuous flow of electricity, like all modern electric motors. Instead, it relies on the attraction and repulsion of electric poles.
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The camo Harris / Walz hat is so popular that Amazon is filling up with generic knockoffs of it
gotta admire the hustle of Chinese manufacturers on Amazon marketplace
Absolutely brutal review of the new Snap Spectacles from
[checks notes]
a guy who worked on them
U.S. citizens are far more likely to commit pretty much every type of crime than either legal or undocumented immigrants
Redditors have found it, the worst cybertruck wrap
https://www.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/comments/1f5un8h/i_wish_hulk_would_smash_this/
