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Elon Musk reveals he looked to sell Tesla to Apple for a fraction of its current value

December 23, 2020
Elon Musk has confirmed rumors that he tried to sell Tesla to Apple not so long ago, but Apple CEO Tim Cook wouldn’t even take the meeting. Cook probably regrets it since Musk said that he was willing to let Tesla go for 1/10th of its current value. There have been numerous rumors regarding Tesla and Apple over the years. They have been competing for talent for a long time, even more so since…
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Quick Charge Podcast: December 22, 2020

December 23, 2020
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
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Researchers release Melinda dataset to train AI systems for analyzing study methods

December 23, 2020
Curating biological studies is an important yet labor-intensive process performed by researchers in life sciences fields. Among other tasks, curators must recognizing experiment methods, identifying the underlying protocols that net the figures published in research articles. In other words, “biocurators” need to take figures, captions, and more into their consideration and make decisions…
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These were the top 5 biggest electric bicycle news stories of 2020

December 23, 2020
As 2020 draws to a close, those of us in the electric bicycle industry look back at the year with mixed emotions. While 2020 brought suffering and economic hardship upon the world in a way many of us had never seen, it also shook up the outdated status quo for urban transportation in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. That made 2020 a huge year for electric bicycles, and now we’re looking…
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Google Photos-powered parody of ‘Photograph’ by Nickelback is a video that now exists

December 23, 2020
The end of the year is a time for reminiscing, and Google is doing that in a substantial manner following a team up with Nickelback to release a Photos-themed parody of Photograph. A parody of 2005’s Photograph from Canadian band Nickelback was uploaded to the company’s official YouTube channel this morning under the innocuous name “Google Photos — Look at your photographs.” Google…
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