Elon Musk pushed to use Tesla’s internal driver monitoring camera to record video of drivers’ behavior, primarily for Tesla to use this video as evidence to defend itself from investigations in the event of a crash, according to Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the Tesla CEO.
Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk is out, resulting in several revelations about Tesla’s past, present…
4 reasons why the US's offshore wind problems are temporary
September 16, 2023
The US offshore wind industry has had some significant problems lately – but here’s why that’s not going to stop the young sector in the long run.
According to the US Department of Energy’s 2023 Offshore Wind Market report from August, around 27 power offtake…
China’s largest EV maker, BYD, just hit a significant milestone with its 500,000th Yuan Plus EV model rolling off the assembly line Friday.
The achievement comes just 19 months after hitting the market. Since its debut in China in February 2022, the Yuan Plus has become…
This is what the US clean energy manufacturing boom looks like IRL
September 16, 2023
Check out this cool new interactive map that shows where and how clean energy manufacturing is mushrooming across the US.
Where the new US clean energy manufacturing is
The interactive map was created by the US Department of Energy (DOE) – check it out here – and you can filter by technologies (batteries, EVs, offshore wind, and solar), reported dollar amount, and reported number of jobs…
NASA to Discuss Optical Communications Demo Riding With Psyche
September 16, 2023
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 20, to discuss the agency’s first test of high-bandwidth optical communications beyond the Moon. The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration is launching aboard the Psyche…
Nintendo’s winter, PlayStation’s fall, Xbox’s MasterCard | Kaser Focus
September 16, 2023
Nintendo and Sony both apparently conspired to have their big September shows on the same day — while I was out of the office, no less. I managed to watch the Direct in the morning (while at the DMV) and I was struck by just how much the company is leaning into Mario this…
Claude Pro vs. ChatGPT Plus: Which AI chatbot is better for you?
September 16, 2023
The race to dominate the burgeoning market for sophisticated artificial intelligence chatbots intensified last week as the startup Anthropic introduced a subscription version of its conversational AI assistant, Claude.ai.
The new service, called Claude Pro, offers users faster and more reliable access to the Claude chatbot during peak hours, as well as exclusive features that are not available in…
When producing everyday visual collaterals, like an internal presentation or a social media post, many organizations rely on graphic designers or visually-capable folks who use their creative chops to come up with designs aligning with the brand language. They take care of…
When people program new deep learning AI models — those that can focus on the right features of data by themselves — the vast majority rely on optimization algorithms, or optimizers, to ensure the models have a high enough rate of accuracy. But one of the most…
Russia Considers Legalizing Defi DAOs to Draw Liquidity to Its Digital Assets Market – Defi Bitcoin News
September 16, 2023
The Finance Ministry in Moscow is pushing to legalize decentralized financial organizations to attract capital to Russia’s regulated market for digital assets. The department hopes this would allow some of the liquidity in the decentralized finance (defi) and crypto space to be invested in Russian digital financial assets (DFAs).
Russian Government Looks to Defi Space for Investment Capital
The…
