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Google launches Ripple, an open standard that could bring tiny radars to Ford cars and more

Google has been publicly building tiny radar chips since 2015. They can tell you how well you sleep, control a smartwatch, count sheets of paper, and let you play the world’s tiniest violin. But the company’s Soli radar hasn’t necessarily had commercial success, most prominently featuring in an ill-fated Pixel phone. Now, Google has launched an open-source API standard called Ripple that could theoretically bring the tech to additional devices outside Google — perhaps even a car,… Source link

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Can a Tiny AI Group Stand Up to Google?

Good luck to her, because this will be a tough battle. Big Tech carries out its own AI research with much more money, effectively sucking oxygen out of the room for everyone else. In 2019, for instance, Microsoft Corp. invested $1 billion into OpenAI, the research firm co-founded by Elon Musk, to power its development of a massive language-predicting system called GPT-3. A Harvard University study on AI ethics, published Wednesday, said that investment went to a project run by just 150… Source link

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Tiny house market grows in tight housing market

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the median size of a single-family house in 2020, the most up-to-date survey year, is 2,261 square feet. For many Americans, a home of that size is out of their price range, simply too large for their needs, or entails a bigger carbon footprint than they want…enter the tiny house. This Town at Trilith tiny house has a sleek, modern kitchen with downsized appliances. (Photo courtesy of Town at Trilith) According to the 2018 International Residential Code,… Source link

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Tesla in S&P 500 is only a tiny step in company’s ride to a $1 trillion valuation

TipRanks Goldman Sachs Says These 3 Stocks Could Surge Over 30% From Current Levels After a true annus horribilus, we’re all ready for better times. The US equity strategy team at Goldman Sachs, led by David Kostin, sees those better time ahead, and in the near-term. The team is predicting a 25% gain for the S&P 500 within the next 24 months – or to put it in absolute numbers, they believe the index will hit 4,600 by December 2022. Kostin lays out four clear reasons for believing that… Source link

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Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister of Deebo fame dead at 62

Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister was an NCAA track and field champion before embarking on his wrestling and acting career. (Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP) Tommy “Tiny” Lister, a former NCAA champion, actor and professional wrestler, died on Thursday at 62 years old. Best known for his role as Deebo in 1995 hit comedy “Friday,” Lister was also a champion shot put athlete for Cal State L.A. Lister also briefly wrestled under the moniker Zeus for the then-WWF in 1989 before starring as the character in… Source link

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