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Spanish researchers have developed an intermediate band (IB) solar cell using gallium phosphide and titanium, which has the potential to achieve an energy conversion efficiency of up to 60%. (usasolarcell.com)

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How liver tissue from the international space station may transform tissue engineering: Pioneering space research leverages microgravity for tissue engineering breakthroughs. (www.eurekalert.org)

submitted 10 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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With 'electro-agriculture,' plants can produce food in the dark and with 94% less land, bioengineers say. (www.sciencedaily.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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Joscha Bach - Building an AGI to Play the Longest Games (youtu.be)

submitted 10 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology_youtube

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Move over Waymo, here comes Wayve: a new self-driving player in California (electrek.co)

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Tesla CEO just said some wild things about FSD v13 (electrek.co)

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Now, with that context in mind, CEO Elon Musk has made new comments during the conference call following Tesla’s release of its Q3 2024 financial results:

We expect to see roughly a five- or six-fold improvement in miles between interventions [with v13] compared to 12.5. And actually, looking at the year as whole, the improvement in miles interventions, we think will be at least three orders of magnitude. So, that’s a very dramatic improvement in the course of the year, and we expect that trend to continue next year.

The second part of the comment will be more challenging to verify, but for the first time, Musk is clearly comparing two versions for the first time.

He says that Tesla’s upcoming FSD v13, which is supposed to come within the next week, will achieve a 5 to 6x increase in miles between disengagement compared to v12.5.

Ashok Elluswamy, the head of FSD at Tesla, clarified that this would be miles between critical disengagement.

That means that based on the crowdsourced data, Tesla FSD v13 will achieve between 690 and 828 miles between critical disengagement.

If Tesla indeed delivers v13 by the end of the month, we should know whether that’s true or not within the next few weeks.

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Stamp-sized microchip that imitates the human brain could speed up treatments for Alzheimer's (medicalxpress.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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Study: Robotic automation, AI will speed up scientific progress in science laboratories. (techxplore.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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UN Emissions Gap Report 2024 - Chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C is 'virtually zero' (www.unep.org)

submitted 11 months ago by Espiritdescali to c/futurology

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First official announcement that there is "some chance" Tesla Hardware 3 won't support unsupervised FSD (electrek.co)

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As long as they make good on their promise to (somehow) retrofit the capable hardware, and continue supporting FSD transfers, I don't see much problem with this. If not, it seems like they're setting themselves up for a class-action lawsuit.

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Tesla has quietly been running a FSD ride-hailing network for employees in Bay Area (driveteslacanada.ca)

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GM’s Cruise Reports $435 Million Loss in Q3 2024 as Driverless Testing Resumes (driveteslacanada.ca)

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FAA finalizes rules that will apply to air taxis • The Register (www.theregister.com)

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