Train journeys in Spain under 300 kilometers (186 miles) will now be free until the end of the year, a new initiative that officials called an effort to combat inflation and rising costs of living. nyti.ms/3KBnesd

Cruise to launch robotaxi services in Austin, Phoenix before end of 2022 tcrn.ch/3qyeFVU by Rebecca Bellan

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#MSIgnite Developer Sessions are all online to watch for free! aka.ms/Ignite2022Dev

San Francisco allows police to remotely kill suspects with robots arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/1… by Ron Amadeo

Baidu, the search engine sometimes called the Google of China, announced more of its robotaxi plans, including what it claims will be the largest no-safety-driver robotaxi service area in the world in 2023. trib.al/pfjhBKI

Google's new music model MusicLM is the breakthrough of the week. Here it is in action. Just describe the music and it'll generate the track:

Copilot keeps getting better and better! GitHub Copilot now has a better AI model and new capabilities github.blog/2023-02-14-git…

Generate videos with nothing but words. If you can say it, now you can see it. Introducing, Text to Video. With Gen-2. Learn more at research.runwayml.com/gen2

The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone. It will change the way people work, learn, travel, get health care, and communicate with each other. gatesnot.es/3FIamPU

Unreal demonstrated new performance capture tech that uses just an iPhone, a computer, and way less time than traditional methods.

We just released our work on robot soccer. I've been working on this for quite some time with my amazing colleagues at DeepMind. It's exciting how deep RL can produce such beautiful behaviors with low-cost robots. Full paper is available at arxiv.org/abs/2304.13653 Enjoy!

Web app testing tip: 1. Store all your links and headers in an array 2. Use the array to generate your nav bar 3. Use the array to generate a test that navigates to every page and checks for the expected header. I just did this in Playwright with ~7 lines of code! 🔥 👇

How to leave your work at work: - Finish one small task before you leave the office - Write a to-do list for the next day - Tidy your desk - Create a ritual to mark the end of professional time - Start your personal time in the evening on a positive note hbr.org/2017/11/how-to…

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EF 8 introduces support for DateOnly and TimeOnly types for MS SQL Server. Previously, it threw the exception for unsupported types. Or you should use third-party libraries.

Really cool EF Core Query Plan Visualaizer by Giorgi Dalakishvili that's integrated INSIDE Visual Studio! /cc Mads Kristensen free and open source! marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName…

Check out Figure 01, the latest humanoid robot by Figure and OpenAI! It's now engaging in lively conversations while effortlessly multitasking, showcasing a whole new level of robot smarts! 🤖

For those asking how $7/month covers that level of traffic: It’s Cloudflare. Cloudflare is the answer.

"WinUI 3 or WPF are now the preferred ways of building apps on Windows. Microsoft says WinUI 3 is best used when apps are graphical, media, and consumer focused, and WPF is best used when leveraging the larger ecosystem of third-party controls and libraries."