🔗 Articles: Friday 23.Aug.2024


CleanTechnica: Why Did Tesla Stock Crash Today?

  • Tesla Finance & Business Operations Exec Resigns
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UPI: Trump’s New Jersey club to host ‘awards gala’ for people involved in Jan. 6 riot

Former President Donald Trump’s club in New Jersey is planning to host an “awards gala” for people incarcerated for their role in a riot on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, including 20 choir members who contributed to the Justice for All charity song.

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General admission tickets are $1,500 and a single VIP ticket costs $2,500. All donations were listed as tax deductible.

Trump is doubling down on support from people who thought January 6 was a good idea.


Business Insider: Tesla Job Pays You to Wear Motion-Capture Suit to Train Optimus Robot

  • Tesla is hiring Data Collection Operators for up to $48 per hour to train its humanoid robot.
  • The role involves wearing motion-capture suits and VR headsets to perform tasks for data collection.
  • Experts say Tesla aims to gather vast amounts of data to train the robot for generalized tasks.

WashPo: Bill Clinton and the wide gap in job gains by presidential party

“You’re going to have a hard time believing this, but so help me, I triple-checked it,” Clinton began. “Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, America has created about 51 million new jobs. I swear I checked this three times. Even I couldn’t believe it. What’s the score? Democrats 50, Republicans one.”


Undecided (YouTube): How This New Battery is Changing the Game

Nothing lasts forever, and batteries are no exception. But what if we could somehow create a battery that didn’t degrade…at least for a little while? The China-based company CATL, might have just done that. The selling point of its latest battery, the TENER, is its ability to go five years with no power degradation or loss of capacity. How is this possible? Are we on the way to battery immortality?


9to5Mac: Apple Podcasts now offers auto-generated transcripts in iOS 17.4

25.Jan.2024

Apple says that podcast transcripts will be available “shortly after” you publish the podcast episode itself. The company explains:

Apple automatically generates transcripts after a new episode is published. Your episode will be available for listening right away, and the transcript will be available shortly afterwards. There will be a short delay while we process your transcript. If portions of your episode change with dynamically inserted audio, Apple Podcasts will not display the segments of the audio that have changed since the original transcription. Music lyrics are also not displayed in the transcripts.

On the “Now Playing” screen in the Apple Podcasts app, there’s a new “quote” icon in the bottom toolbar that you can tap to view that episode’s transcript. “As an episode plays, each word is highlighted, making it easy to follow along,” Apple says. You can tap anywhere in the live transcript to start listening at that specific point.

Apple limits the size of text that you can copy from the transcript to about a single screen’s worth. I was unable to get the tap to move the player to the same location in the audio.


The Hill: Kennedy siblings rip RFK Jr. for endorsing Trump: ‘A betrayal’ of family values

“We want an America filled with hope and bound together by a shared vision of a brighter future,” Kerry Kennedy wrote in a [Twitter] statement alongside four of Kennedy’s siblings. “We believe in Harris and Walz. Our brother Bobby’s decision to endorse Trump today is a betrayal of the values that our father and our family hold most dear.”

“It is a sad ending to a sad story,” they added.

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Kerry Kennedy, who leads the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization, wrote the statement alongside four siblings — Courtney Kennedy, Chris Kennedy, Rory Kennedy and former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (D).


Last Updated: 23.Aug.2024 19:23 EDT

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