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A Growing Presence on the Farm: Robots(nytimes.com)
1 points by jpm_sd 7y ago|0 comments
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As the Startup Boom Deflates, Tech Is Humbled(nytimes.com)
88 points by jpm_sd 7y ago|47 comments
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
There is a lot of panicky misinformation out there, the WHO is calling it an "infodemic"! This Wikipedia article is doing a respectable job tracking some of the conspiracy theories and falsehoods: https://en.wikipedia.o
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
As far as I know, Makani has never successfully demonstrated net positive power generation. They have designed an incredibly complex tethered-helicopter-flying-wing, and that is an impressive technological achievement. But it's also a
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Alphabet takes the wind out of its Makani energy kites(techcrunch.com)
13 points by jpm_sd 7y ago|3 comments
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Tesla driver in fatal crash had reported problems before with Autopilot feature(reuters.com)
6 points by jpm_sd 7y ago|2 comments
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
This is a really odd article. Using this device sounds awful! > What I do want to talk about is how this entire system fundamentally screws with your brain in a way that I can barely understand, illustrated by seemingly straightforward q
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
"Other Bets" includes everything under the Alphabet umbrella that is not Google, which means various entities that are supposed to be turning into individually profitable companies. https://www.reuters.com/article&
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
Ctrl-F "Other Bets operating loss": Q4 2018 (1.3bn) Q4 2019 (2.0bn) Yikes
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
This is an interesting read, especially given Laika's current financial challenges: https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2019/06/laika-splits-wit...
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
https://www.oxbotica.com/
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
I'm pretty sure they are just dumb, not malicious. "Let's buy this company! It could grow into a billion dollar business!" 18-36 months later: "It's not growing fast enough. Kill it."
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
At this point the shutdown announcements are probably sent by a cron job
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
Half-Life came out when I was in engineering school, and I told myself I'd get around to playing it when I graduated. Somehow the demands of school, career, and family have added up to more than 20 years, it's probably time to giv
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The World's First Smart Potato(indiegogo.com)
2 points by jpm_sd 7y ago|0 comments
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
David Brin covered this topic in a 1996 Wired article [1] and a follow-on 1998 book [2]. Bruce Schneier disagreed with him in 2008 [3] (and probably still does). [1] https://www.wired.com/1996/12/fftransparent&#x2
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: >>> It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly adv
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
> DuckDuckGo is small, but it’s growing 50% year-over-year. As of last week, it is also a search option on every European Android device. If the growth rate were to double, DDG would surpass Google in 6 years. That's what we call a
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
TL;DR: political polarization in the USA has measurably increased, and this is bad for the country and its citizens. However, some data suggest that that two-thirds of Americans fall into what they call the "Exhausted Majority", p
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
Sion Power has been working on this technology "since 1989". https://sionpower.com/about/ It still only lasts a couple of hundred charge cycles before wearing out: https://advances.sciencemag.org&#
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
It's too bad "I'll Scream Your Tweets" never took off https://youtu.be/Td1MYuLu5Nc
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
Feat
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
> At this point I've told the founders something you'd think would be completely obvious: that they should make a good company by making a good product. Sure, ok. How do you make a good product? That definitely is not "com
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
He's Ballmer-ing steadily forward, that's all that is really needed at this point.
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
The unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) industry is already fairly mature. These guys in NY are competing against large, established companies that already acquired reasonably successful startups: Teledyne (Gavia) General Dynamics (Bluefin) K
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
https://www.zephyrproject.org/what-is-zephyr/ The Zephyr Project’s goal is to establish a neutral project where silicon vendors, OEMs, ODMs, ISVs, and OSVs can contribute technology to reduce the cost and accelerate ti
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Alphabet's Dream of an 'Everyday Robot' Is Just Out of Reach(wired.com)
2 points by jpm_sd 7y ago|0 comments
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The Everyday Robot Project(blog.x.company)
1 points by jpm_sd 7y ago|0 comments
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Two-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping(news.mit.edu)
60 points by jpm_sd 7y ago|12 comments
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by jpm_sd 7y ago
We're working on a cheaper way to do it: https://www.saildrone.com/news/autonomous-vehicles-cost-effe...

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