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He has been going at it for over three decades already (Gates foundation was started in 1994) and he founded and signed the Giving Pledge in 2010, so it isn't really that late-life.

Gates foundation has donated over 100 billion already, 60 billion directly from him
That's a bit more than "tossing a few million a year".

The actual answer: It should be Level 4 autonomy. It is capable of full self driving, but only in certain conditions.

Do note that Tesla autopilot is actually only SAE level 2, so it's just a straight up lie :)

Generic in context.

Giving Tesla those trademarks would mean nobody else can call theirs using those terms. Giving both could mean they might argue the terms robocab and cybertaxi were too close and confusing too. But they are all terms we already use for that type of a vehicle.
We didn't call operating systems windows before windows, and we (mostly) still don't.

Also the trademark for X is like the trademark for Apple, very narrow in scope. You could start and trademark X as your own pretty much as long as it's something that isn't like Twitter.
And many already do exist (and did before musks X)

Because there isn't a trademark conflict, it's just too generic of a term to get trademarked in the first place, but it took seven months for USPTO to process the application.

"Tesla applied for the trademark in October 2024 on the same day that it revealed the Cybercab."

Reminds me of the parted out "made in the USA" Ford F150, which actually has components from 24 different countries.

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, first you have to invent the universe".

The software they are using is the original PebbleOS that was open-sourced only a few months ago (Pebble -> Fitbit -> Google -> Open Source) , so the "it can't tell time" is just that they haven't yet completed all the firmware changes necessary to enable the real-time clock in the completely new hardware they are using.

But it sure does sound hilarious when taken out of context.

Yes, but there are limitations on switching, iirc something like 6 months between being able to join a different family and so on. They don't really matter for actual families, but does if you just want to share games with a bunch of friends.

The new company is called Core devices, it's using old stock Pebble 2 cases to make the watch, and apparently the Duo stands for "do-over" - though I'm fairly sure they realized the c2d joke after the "core 2" part and just ran with it.

There hasn't really been anything worthwhile to upgrade to yet. More powerful handhelds do exist, but most make use of APUs that are 50-100% more power hungry, while not actually achieving that much of a performance increase.

Valve is waiting for the next generation of 15W APUs, and meanwhile the new Ryzen Z2 A APU is actually based on the one made for the Deck because it's still basically the most efficient APU they have.

Better will happen. Cheaper than Meta selling the Quest 2/3s at a loss for $300 because they bank on the walled garden of the Oculus app store for profit? Rather unlikely.

Especially now that every VR headset seems to be a standalone and the simple "HDMI cable to a PC" doesn't really seem to exist any more, so you have to pay for the mandatory integrated gaming tablet as well.

Uh huh. The man who has donated roughly 100 billion in total - apparently as "tax writeoffs" - including funding the Gates foundation which spent countless billions treating malaria, aids, tuberculosis, polio, hiv and a myriad of other things, hasn't fixed anything because billionaire = bad.