Subj : Tesla's robot walks 🤖 , private moon landing 🚀, lessons running SaaS startup 👨‍💻 To : tldr@synchro.net From : TLDR Date : Mon Feb 26 2024 11:37 am --1ses6Z7o Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Tesla's latest clip of its Optimus humanoid robot shows it smoothly walki= ng around one of its testing facilities=C2=A0=20 Sign Up [1]|Hire [2]|Ad= vertise [3]|View Online [4]=20 =09=09TLDR=20 TLDR 2024-02-26 = =F0=9F=93=B1=20 BIG TECH & STARTUPS TESLA SHARES MORE FOOTAGE OF O= PTIMUS WALKING IMPROVEMENTS (4 MINUTE READ) [5]=20 Tesla's latest cli= p of its Optimus humanoid robot shows it smoothly walking around one of i= ts testing facilities. The robot can currently walk at around 0.6 meters = per second, a 30% speed boost compared to the robot's last appearance. Te= sla is aiming for the robot to be eventually able to walk up to five mile= s per hour. A link to the video is available in the article.=20 GOOGL= E SAYS MICROSOFT OFFERED TO SELL BING TO APPLE IN 2018, BUT SEARCH-QUALIT= Y ISSUES GOT IN THE WAY (3 MINUTE READ) [6]=20 A document from Google's= antitrust case against the US Justice Department revealed that Microsoft= offered to sell its Bing search engine to Apple several times over the p= ast few decades, with Apple declining the offer over quality issues every= time. Microsoft's almost $100 billion investment into Bing over 20 years= was not enough to create a product comparable to Google's. Google's case= centers over whether the company has a monopoly in web search. Microsoft= 's CEO previously testified that he has focused every year of his tenure = as CEO to see if Apple would be open to a default search arrangement for= Bing.=20 =F0=9F=9A=80=20 SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY FIR= ST PRIVATE MOON LANDER TOUCHES DOWN ON LUNAR SURFACE TO MAKE HISTORY (6 M= INUTE READ) [7]=20 Odysseus landed successfully on the Moon on 22 Febru= ary. Built by Intuitive Machines, Odysseus is the first private lunar lan= der and the first US lunar lander since 1972. It is currently around 300= kilometers from the lunar south pole, an area that may contain ice. Th= e lander experienced a malfunction that required a software patch hours b= efore landing. It will collect data for up to seven days until night fall= s at the landing site.=20 HOW DOES BLUESKY WORK? 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Tesla shares more footage o= f Optimus walking improvements (4 minute read)

Tesla's latest clip of its Optimus huma= noid robot shows it smoothly walking around one of its testing facilities. = The robot can currently walk at around 0.6 meters per second, a 30% speed b= oost compared to the robot's last appearance. Tesla is aiming for the robot= to be eventually able to walk up to five miles per hour. A link to the vid= eo is available in the article.
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Google says Microsoft offer= ed to sell Bing to Apple in 2018, but search-quality issues got in the way = (3 minute read)

A document from Google's antitrust case= against the US Justice Department revealed that Microsoft offered to sell = its Bing search engine to Apple several times over the past few decades, wi= th Apple declining the offer over quality issues every time. Microsoft's al= most $100 billion investment into Bing over 20 years was not enough to crea= te a product comparable to Google's. Google's case centers over whether the= company has a monopoly in web search. Microsoft's CEO previously testified= that he has focused every year of his tenure as CEO to see if Apple would = be open to a default search arrangement for Bing.
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First private Moon lander t= ouches down on lunar surface to make history (6 minute read)

Odysseus landed successfully on the Moo= n on 22 February. Built by Intuitive Machines, Odysseus is the first privat= e lunar lander and the first US lunar lander since 1972. It is currently ar= ound 300 kilometers from the lunar south pole, an area that may contain ice= .. The lander experienced a malfunction that required a software patch hours= before landing. It will collect data for up to seven days until night fall= s at the landing site.
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BlueSky (the company) is using BlueSky = (the microblogging application) to prove the viability of the Authenticated= Transfer Protocol (atproto), a federated protocol for large-scale distribu= ted social applications. atproto can't be controlled by any one organizatio= n due to its federated nature - various parts of the system that communicat= e with each other can have multiple people running them. This article takes= a close look at how atproto works, explaining its structure, how the syste= m is supposed to work, potential issues, and more.
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