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Researchers jailbreak a Tesla, the FCC fines robocallers and WeWork finds itself in trouble (again)

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In this week’s edition of WiR, we cover researchers figuring out a way to “jailbreak” Teslas, the AI.com domain name switching hands and the FCC fining robocallers. If you haven’t already, sign up here to get WiR in your inbox every Saturday. Now, on with the recap.

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Radar trends to watch: August 2021

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To succeed, VR will have to get beyond ultra geeky goggles. This is of immense importance to research in biology and medicine. Researchers have been able to synthesize speech using the brainwaves of a patient who has been paralyzed and unable to talk. This research attempts to answer the question “What will someone do next?”

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Radar Trends to Watch: December 2022

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Facebook’s large language model for scientific research, Galactica , only survived online for three days. It produced scientific papers that sounded reasonable, but the content was often factually incorrect, including “fake research” attributed to real scientists. When is VR too connected to the real world?

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Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

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Alongside a16z founder Marc Andreessen, general partner Chris Dixon has been integral to the firm’s rise as a giant in the crypto VC world — he was an early investor in startups such as Coinbase, Uniswap and Oculus VR. But how can someone without a PhD in quantum physics or an organization far from quantum computing research benefit?