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Uber drivers are going to have access to 50,000 Tesla vehicles for rent through Hertz

October 27, 2021
Uber announced a deal with Hertz for its drivers to have access to 50,000 Tesla vehicles through the rental company. Earlier this week, we reported on Hertz announcing that it ordered 100,000 Model 3 vehicles from Tesla. Now we learn that there’s more to the deal. Hertz has already been working with Uber to offer its drivers access to rental vehicles – since many don’t own the cars they…
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Detroit daily hypes then tempers ‘EVs cost more than gas cars’ report

October 27, 2021
The Detroit Free Press just may have been looking to stir the pot a bit over the weekend with its article on a study’s contrarian finding that driving an electric vehicle (EV) costs more than a standard gas-burning car. What the paper apparently got was a Wagnerian choir of “WTF?” because, on Tuesday, it ran what reads like a back-away-slowly follow-up to the original piece it demurely…
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Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is a damn good superhero video game

October 27, 2021
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy surprised the hell outta me. I expected standard, blockbuster action-RPG fare painted with an ’80s nostalgic gloss that would never elicit an emotion more meaningful than, “cool, they got the rights to Blondie!” And while the developers at Eidos Montreal did indeed get the rights to Blondie and an impressive host of other ’80s mainstays, I was shocked to…
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Upgrading the Space Station’s Cold Atom Lab With Mixed Reality

October 27, 2021
. Upgrading the Space Station’s Cold Atom Lab With Mixed Reality NASA is looking into whether mixed reality technology could help with repairs and upgrades on the cutting-edge Cold Atom Lab aboard the space station. NASA’s Cold Atom Lab is a first-of-its-kind physics laboratory operating in Earth orbit. About the size of a mini-fridge, it hosts…
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