Tesla Inc. was sued for the second time in three months by the family of a car owner who was killed in a crash while using the driver-assistance system Autopilot. Jeremy Banner, 50, died when the Model 3 sedan he was driving failed to brake or steer to avoid…
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Watch Tesla’s ‘Sentry Mode’ catch a man keying a Model 3 for no reason
Always looking to leverage technology in clever ways, Tesla this past May introduced a new security-oriented feature dubbed Sentry Mode. The feature, as the name somewhat implies, records 360-degree video around a Tesla vehicle whenever a security incident su…
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A solar-powered system can turn salt water into fresh drinking water for 25,000 people per day. It could help address the world’s looming water crisis.
People have been trying to turn seawater into drinking water for thousands of years, but the process is not usually energy-efficient or affordable. At a newly constructed facility in Kenya, however, a nonprofit called GivePower is tackling that challenge u…
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Humans are beating machines, and Pershing Square and Greenlight are crushing it— here’s how hedge funds performed in the first half
Funds that put up big numbers during volatile times can run into trouble when things are calm. And, as a recent Wall Street Journal headline put it, markets are eerily quiet right now. Ionic Capital, a multi-billion-dollar fund founded by Highbridge Capita…
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Automate the Freight: When the Freight is People
Before I got a license and a car, getting to and from high school was an ordeal. The hour-long bus ride was awful, as one would expect when sixty adolescents are crammed together with minimal supervision. Avoiding the realities going on around me was a consta…
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