by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 22, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Everything’s bigger in Texas, including Tesla, which said Wednesday that it will officially open its largest factory yet in the Lone Star State.“GigaTexas” will span a nearly 2,000-acre site near Austin, just 15 minutes from the city’s downtown and five minutes from...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 21, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
On March 1, the Bay Area’s Caltrain rail system was in the midst of a $2 billion plan to electrify its tracks, replace its aging diesel locomotives, and run more trains between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Now, officials warn that without serious funding...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 19, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
The stock market appears strangely indifferent to Covid-19 these days, but that wasn’t true in March, as the scale and breadth of the crisis hit home. By one measure, it was the most volatile month in stock market history; on March 16, the Dow Jones average fell...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 17, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
TED made the risky decision to maintain its high ticket cost, and Anderson says that about half of the initial attendees chose to stick it out. “People are effectively paying 10 grand for a virtual experience,” he says. “It’s kind of amazing, a combination of an act...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 17, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Dermatologist Harald Kittler draws on more than a decade of experience when he teaches students at the Medical University of Vienna how to diagnose skin lesions. His classes this fall will include a tip he learned only recently from an unusual source: an artificial...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Jul 15, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
In 2018, Silicon Valley, like Hamlet’s engineer, was hoist with its own petard. Citizens were panicking about data privacy, researchers were sounding alarms about artificial intelligence, and even industry stakeholders rebelled against app addiction. Policymakers,...
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