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Tesla had talks with other automakers about licensing its self-driving software, Elon Musk says

January 28, 2021
Tesla had “preliminary” discussions with other automakers about licensing its self-driving software, according to new comments by CEO Elon Musk. Tesla Licensing Software Today, Tesla released its Q4 2020 financial results and following the release, the automaker held its usual conference call with management. During the call, CEO Elon Musk was asked by an analyst about Tesla potentially…
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AI & RoboticsNews

MIT CSAIL claims its breast cancer prediction AI works equally well across demographic groups

January 28, 2021
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) say they’ve created a breast cancer risk-assessment algorithm that shows consistent performance across patients from the U.S., Europe, and Asia. This new algorithm captures the requirements of risk modeling, jointly learning a patient’s risk across multiple future time points and optionally drawing on…
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MobileNews

Apple crosses 1 billion active iPhone users for the first time as install base reaches new milestone

January 28, 2021
Billion is quickly becoming the theme of Apple’s holiday earnings quarter results. For starters, Apple has earned well over $100 billion in a single quarter for the first time in the company’s history. Apple has also hit new milestones with its active install base of devices. According to CEO Tim Cook, there are now more than 1 billion iPhones being used by customers around the world, and…
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GamingNews

EA founded a new studio to work on the long-awaited 'Skate 4'

January 28, 2021
EA has formed a new studio to develop the next Skate game. On Wednesday, the publisher announced the existence of Full Circle, which, like previous Skate developer Black Box, will be based out of Vancouver, Canada. EA has tapped Daniel McCulloch, who was previously the head…
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Tesla loses top manufacturing engineer behind battery production to electric pickup maker Rivian

January 28, 2021
Tesla has lost one of its top manufacturing engineers behind its battery cell production, Victor Prajapati, to electric pickup truck startup Rivian. Victor Prajapati Prajapati joined Tesla from solar module manufacturer First Solar, where he was manager of manufacturing engineering, back in 2017. He came to the automaker just as Model 3 production was starting and the company was entering some…
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