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The Boring Company’s tunneling machine has officially reached the Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas, as the enterprise continues developing its network of underground tunnels throughout the city. The Elon Musk-led company posted about the news on X on Friday, including a photo and video of its Prufrock tunnel boring machine (TBM) as it emerged at the Virgin Hotels resort. The site is the latest in The Boring Company’s continued development of the Las Vegas Loop, a broader network of underground ride-hailing tunnels following its initial loop, the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) loop. Prufrock subtly emerging beneath @VirginHotelsLV Thanks for…
Este artículo también está disponible en español. Trump’s advocacy of US stablecoins may prove to be the accelerant for a stalled EU plan – the digital Euro. Supporters are rubbing their hands in glee that their beloved pet project, a CBDC for the Euro, may finally become a reality. It’s been languishing in legislative limbo since 2023, as lawmakers were skeptical of the project. The chances of the digital Euro being ready by the end of this year are slim at best. Even so, with major pro-crypto moves on both sides of the Atlantic, it’s a good time to get…
Hyundai announced today that it has developed an Automatic Charging Robot (ACR) that is similar to a design Tesla showed off a few years ago. The EV charging robot communicates with the car and will charge the vehicle without the driver having to get out. The ACR uses a one-arm system that will automatically plug an EV charging cable into an electric vehicle. In the demonstration video, an IONIQ 6 parks in a charging bay, and the AC communicates with the car to open the charging door and calculates the exact location of the port. This is done through a…
January’s Night Sky Notes: The Red Planet by Kat Troche of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 06, 2025 Have you looked up at the night sky this season and noticed a bright object sporting a reddish hue to the left of Orion? This is none other than the planet Mars! January will be an excellent opportunity to spot this planet and some of its details with a medium-sized telescope. Be sure to catch these three events this month.Martian Retrograde Mars entered retrograde (or backward movement relative to its usual direction) on December…
Roughly a month after it was revealed that The Boring Company was beginning to sell hats, serial tech entrepreneur Elon Musk confirmed that his tunnel digging venture has sold $300,000 worth of the merchandise. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO thanked all buyers of the company’s “super boring hat” over Twitter saying, “You rock, figuratively & literally. All cash goes directly towards more boring.” He is of course thankful for the outcome of his tongue-in-cheek “Initial Hat Offering”, or IHO, because, after all, the company has been in the midst of building an underground tunnel beneath Los Angeles. “Gonna build that…
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) canceled more than $180 million in contracts over 48 hours, including a nearly $170,000 contract for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit.”In the past 48 hours, HHS canceled 62 contract [sic] worth $182 million,” The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced in a Friday social media post. “These contracts were entirely for administrative expenses – none touched any healthcare programs. This included terminating a $168,000 contract for an Anthony Fauci exhibit at the NIH Museum.”The news comes as DOGE, led by billionaire Elon Musk, has continued to outline vast changes in government spending over…
Amazon is set to release its long-awaited – and delayed – Alexa generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) voice service, said three people familiar with the matter, and has scheduled a press event for later this month to preview it.Once released, it would mark the most significant upgrade to the product since its initial introduction accelerated a wave of digital assistants more than a decade ago.Amazon on Wednesday sent press invites to an event to be held on February 26 in New York featuring the head of its devices and services team, Panos Panay. A spokesperson said the event is Alexa-focused, while…
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A former Tesla software engineer is among those recently chosen by Elon Musk for federal positions related to the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and it’s being reported that he is currently looking into the use of AI to identify potential budget cuts. The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has appointed Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla software engineer of seven years, as the Director of the Technology Transformation Services (TTS) group at the General Services Administration (via The New York Times). The group includes around 700 engineering professionals picked by Musk, and Shedd has recently told staffers that…
Another Tesla Cybertruck has been registered in Europe, as was confirmed over the weekend by one of the company’s engineers for the unique electric vehicle (EV). On Sunday, Tesla’s Lead Cybertruck Engineer Wes Morrill reposted an image on X of a Cybertruck driving in the Netherlands with a European license plate. The photo, which was originally posted by X user Dénis van Vliet on Saturday, shows the Cybertruck driving on a freeway in Eindhoven, though he also notes that the EV has an Albanian license plate. “First Cybertruck registered in EU, driving in Netherlands? Someone was bound to figure it…