Today at Tesla’s first Autonomy Day event, Elon Musk took questions from the press but didn’t have time for questions about Lidar. Historically, he’s been vocal about the technology, and this time he put it as clear as he could. “LIDAR is a fool’s errand,” Elon Musk said. “Anyone relying on LIDAR is doomed. Doomed! [They are] expensive sensors that are unnecessary. It’s like hav
“Anyone relying on Lidar is doomed,” Elon Musk says
Tesla Inc. stock falls as the company’s investor day, solely focused on its autonomous driving capabilities, gets under way and the car maker unveils hardware dedicated to driverless cars.
Tesla unveils in-house driverless-car computer
Democrats running for president aren’t in any rush to impeach President Donald Trump in the wake of the Mueller report.
Capitol Report: Warren aside, 2020 Democrats in no rush to impeach Trump
As the internet TV services have matured, their pricing has as well. The majority have raised their price points — some have even done so multiple times. Today, Philo is following suit…but only by a little. The streaming TV service has been one of the cheapest on the market, with an entry-level plan that began at only $16 per month for 45 channels. Now, it’s doing away with this s
Streaming TV service Philo gets a little more expensive
President Donald Trump's pick for the Federal Reserve Board, economic commentator Stephen Moore, wrote columns criticizing women's roles in sports in the early 2000s. In a series of columns for the the conservative National Review magazine and resurfaced by CNN on Monday, Moore said women shouldn't referee or announce men's college basketball games. He also suggested a female spo
Trump’s Federal Reserve Board pick Stephen Moore once said women should be banned from men’s sports games, and called female refs an ‘obscenity’
Over the last five years, almost everything about web development has changed. Oh, the old tech still works, your WordPress and Ruby On Rails sites still function just fine — but they’re increasingly being supplanted by radical new approaches. The contents of your browser are being sliced, diced, rendered, and processed in wholly new ways nowadays, and the state of art is currently
The new new web
A new study out Monday suggests that losing your sight early in life can lead to subtle alterations in the brain circuitry primarily responsible for hearingRead more...
Blind People Really Do Have More Sensitive Hearing, MRI Study Finds
Stocks bulls argue that this economic and market expansion was built like no other, meaning that its demise won’t come about in a way history has foretold. Gold and small-cap stocks appear to confirm their view, in one chart.
In One Chart: Ratio of small-caps and gold shows that stock-market fortitude trumps fear
The two banks, which plan to complete their merger by early fall, have little geographic overlap, so they can keep lending teams in place and push for immediate loan growth, according to Craig Dahl.
Lenders of merged Chemical-TCF will ‘hit the ground running,’ CEO-to-be vows
The smartphone giant has delayed the release of the Samsung Galaxy Fold after early review units of the folding smartphone began malfunctioning.
Samsung Delays the Release of Its Galaxy Fold Smartphone
GB Studio allows anyone to build a Game Boy game within minutes, even if they have no prior programming experience. The resulting ROM files can be run using an emulator or, if you have the means, you can flash them to a cart and play them on original hardware.
GB Studio lets you make custom Game Boy games without prior coding knowledge
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Here's how to build a healthy relationship with outside agencies.
Ways to Lead Agencies and Outside Firms Like They're Part of Your Team
Fears around autonomous driving mostly center around what happens if the system fails, but on Monday at Tesla's "autonomous day," CEO Elon Musk tried to put those fears to rest. "Any part of this could fail and the car will keep driving," Musk said. "The probability of this computer failing is substantially lower than somebody losing consciousness. That's the key metric, at least