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Elon Musk’s Boring Company gets green light for Las Vegas tunnel system

The Verge

Elon Musk’s Boring Company just won approval from local officials to move forward with building a network of vehicle tunnels underneath Las Vegas. The Boring Company already operates a small version of this “Teslas in Tunnels” system underneath the Las Vegas Convention Center, which opened earlier this year and involves two 0.8-mile

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The Florida housing market is so weak that this giant builder is cutting prices

Fast Company Tech

KB Home is seeing the greatest weakness in Florida On KB Homes latest earnings call, COO McGibney pointed to Florida as the homebuilders softest-performing state in the first quarterprompting the company to cut net effective home prices to better align with local market conditions.

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Motional and Via launch a free robotaxi shuttle in Las Vegas

The Verge

Motional and Via are teaming up to launch a free robotaxi shuttle service in Las Vegas. Motional is a joint venture between Hyundai and Aptiv that has been testing its vehicles in Las Vegas and California. Together, the two companies say they will launch an autonomous shuttle service in Las Vegas that will be free to use.

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CES will return to Las Vegas as an in-person event in 2022

The Verge

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is officially returning to an in-person format in Las Vegas in 2022, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced today, marking the return of the largest tech conference in the world next year.

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Keeping appointment times from moving around

Robert Weiner

Here's a description of the problem from Microsoft (edited to match my situation): You are traveling through multiple time zones and need the calendar to display the local time for each appointment. meeting, and then fly to Las Vegas and have a dinner reservation at 6:00 P.M. and the Las Vegas dinner is at 6:00 P.M.,

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CES 2022 starts to fall apart as T-Mobile, Amazon, and others bail on in-person conference

The Verge

T-Mobile, Meta, Twitter, Pinterest, and iHeartRadio have all announced this week that they won’t attend this version of the annual Las Vegas expo in light of a new wave of COVID-19 cases in the US, as have major tech publications including The Verge, CNET , Engadget , TechCrunch , TechRadar and Tom’s Guide.

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Miami mayor says Elon Musk will tunnel under the city for just $30 million

The Verge

Elon Musk told Miami’s mayor Friday that The Boring Company could dig a two-mile tunnel under the city for as little as $30 million — a fraction of the $1 billion price tag once quoted by local transit officials. Musk also told the Mayor that The Boring Company could complete the job in six months, versus the original four year estimate.

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