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TuSimple is laying the groundwork for a coast-to-coast autonomous trucking network

The Verge

The company will start by building on its existing partnership with UPS hauling cargo for it between Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, adding cities in Texas like El Paso, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. Starting in 2022, TuSimple says it will connect the East Coast with the West by offering service between Los Angeles and Jacksonville, Florida.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator has some amazing bugs, glitches, and mountain-high obelisks

The Verge

The unusually tall building doesn’t exist in real life, but Bing Maps thinks a giant obelisk dominates the skies of northern Melbourne. Flight Simulator players discovered that Buckingham Palace, the official London residence of Britain’s monarchs, has been turned into an office building. Buckingham Palace turned into an office block.

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Airbnb is helping find renters an apartment so they can Airbnb it

TechCrunch

It allows renters to find an apartment in more than 25 markets — including Austin, Houston, Phoenix, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Miami, San Diego, Sacramento and Tampa — where they can Airbnb a spare room, or the whole apartment while they’re away. Image Credits: Airbnb.

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7 questions to ask before relocating your startup to Florida

TechCrunch

Lakshmi Shenoy is CEO of Embarc Collective , a nonprofit innovation hub in Tampa that builds bold, scalable, thriving companies. Recent data from LinkedIn published in Axios put Tampa Bay, Jacksonville and the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metro areas among the top 10 U.S. Today, Embarc Collective supports nearly 100 tech startups in Florida.

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Landa can make you a landlord for just $5

TechCrunch

Tampa, Birmingham, Orlando and Jacksonville, Fla. “People start low and build their accounts over time,” Cohen said. “The $5 entry point, allows them to build confidence over time and increase their portfolio as they get comfortable.” using the Landa app.

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Kodiak Robotics pilots autonomous trucking between California, Texas and Florida

TechCrunch

The freight run included four commercial deliveries on a 5,600 mile round-trip that started in San Antonio and went to San Francisco and then Jacksonville before going back to San Antonio. The pilot marks the first time Kodiak has run an autonomous freight service to Florida. In total, the trip took 114 hours.

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TuSimple completes its first driverless autonomous truck run on public roads

TechCrunch

TuSimple’s one-hour and 20-minute drive along the I-10, which is a major freight route that runs from Los Angeles, California to Jacksonville, Florida, fits naturally into the company’s future commercial operations, in part because it has parking facilities set up in Tuscon, Lu said.

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