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Filings and sources: autonomous vehicle company Motional cut ~550 employees in a restructuring that included delaying a robotaxi service from 2024 to 2026 (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/10/moti

Motional cut about 550 employees, around 40%, in recent restructuring, sources say | TechCrunch
Around 550 employees across autonomous vehicle company Motional have been laid off, according to information taken from WARN notice filings and sources at

"While there were a total of 3,194 billionaires worldwide in 2022, a high number of the world's population owns less than 10,000 U.S. dollars. As a result, nearly half of the world's wealth is owned by the richest [one] percent."
Billionaires drag us down. Tax em to extinction.
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Topic: Billionaires around the world
Find the most up-to-date statistics and facts on billionaires around the world.

Patience or Panic: Ronald Acuña Jr., Nolan Arenado, Luis Castillo
#MLB #FantasyBaseball #PitcherList

Heutige Abendgestaltung Rebel Heart Tour mit Madonna aus der 3sat-Konserve. Rundfunkbeitrag bei der Arbeit. Sehenswert: https://www.3sat.de/kultur/pop-around-the-clock/madonna-rebel-heart-100.html

Madonna: Rebel Heart Tour
Konzert aus der Allphones Arena, Sydney, 2016

History teaching is not popular at schools lately, some people even think it's not necessary. However understanding current events around Ukraine, in Russia, around Gaza, for all of that is knowledge of history a necessity otherwise you are totally ignorant and you can't understand current events.
#education

I am looking for someone (academic, creative practitioner) located in the East Midlands who can expertly deliver a short talk on poetry, armed conflict, and memory (preferably with reference to the 21C). Please get in touch.
#war #armedconflict

This is why I urge everyone to use 7.62x51 and stay away from the ballistically unstable, ricochet prone 5.56x45. The 7.62nato can serve as light duty anti-materiel. Know your enemy and plan accordingly.
https://arstechnica.com/gadget…

Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation
Quadrupeds being reviewed have automatic targeting systems but require human oversight to fire.

You probably won't see this, but I'm glad you're still around. I missed you. My day is a bit better because you're around.😌

Something that I still can't get my head around on Mastodon... when I click on an account’s "Followers" or "Following" list, I can only see my own profile, maybe a few others if they are on the same instance. Is there any way around this? I feel that it's quite a barrier to finding interesting content 🤔
I'm using Ivory, but I assume it's the same on other clients?

Google releases Gemini 1.5 Pro in public preview on Vertex AI, with support for up to 1M tokens, and says the model will power new features in Code Assist (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/googles-gemini-pro-1-…

Google's Gemini Pro 1.5 enters public preview on Vertex AI | TechCrunch
Its headlining feature is the amount of context that it can process: 1 million tokens, which is equivalent to around 700,000 words or around 30,000 lines of code.