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The automotive industry has a million-mile dream for electric vehicles, but its a boring one. This would effectively eliminate the need for the bulk of vehicle operators toevercharge their batteries. Whether that means quantum batteries are a month away or decades away remains to be seen. Background:Batteries are a very complex technology. Even the little batteries we use for consumer goods are a mystery to scientists. This thing is a mystery....

While manufacturers have successfully increased the water-repelling nature of smartphones, they are still far from waterproof. Its very common for phones to become damaged as a result of being dropped in water. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. So why is it in 2022 a time where technological marvels surround us we still dont have waterproof phones? Its called the Ingress Protection (IP) rating. An IP rating will have two numbers....

Job titles have changed a lot in the last 30 years. While you might have never heard of these roles, give them a chance. You never know, you might just find your dreamcareer. Enterprise Architect, Deloitte An enterprising architect? Not so unusual, surely. Aha, an enterprise architect, so whats that? In a nutshell, an enterprise architect oversees a companys IT networks and services. They are responsible for monitoring, improving, and updating the businesss software and hardware....

Ever wondered what would happen if bicycles could think for themselves? Well, this week, MIT researchers released apaperexploring the potential impacts of an autonomous bike fleet oncity mobility. The MIT Autonomous Bicycle a multi-year project explores on-demand bike sharing. Wait, how the heck does an autonomous bike work? The researchers have designed a wheel mechanism that provides two different configurations. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. When in use, the bicycle mode allows the experience to be the same as riding a regular two-wheeler....

AIhas become adept at recreating, altering, and restoring human speech. But as the replicas become indistinguishable from the real, fears about the tech are growing. Alex Serdiuk has a unique understanding of both the opportunities and threats. Yet Serdiuk has also seen synthetic media at its worst. The CEO and his company are based in Ukraine, which has been the target ofdeepfakedisinformation. 40% off TNW Conference! The clip showed a digitally-rendered Zelensky telling soldiersto surrender to Russia....

This is a rare bit of good news foraviationdesign. The AvioInteriors Skyrider saddle seat is returning to#AIX18after its controversial reception. (@thatjohn)April 10, 2018 Fortunately, its not all bad. There are plenty of people designing airplane interiors with passenger comfort in mind. And now you’re able to all without shelling out for tickets you need a mortgage for. Yes, Im talking about Air New Zealands sleep pods. Each bunk-bed unit has its own mattress, sheets, privacy curtain, USB charging, and ventilation....

How are people likely to navigate this relatively uncharted territory? It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Text generated by models like Googles LaMDA can be hard to distinguish from text written by humans. This impressive achievement is a result of a decadeslong program to build models that generate grammatical, meaningful language. First, they are trained on essentially the entire internet. Second, they can learn relationships between words that are far apart, not just words that are neighbors....

Artificial intelligencehas completely upended the business world. The solution:vertical intelligence. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Unfortunately, vertical intelligence is a buzzword. Nobody really tells you what it is in the context of modern AI solutions. And it turns out that its quite simple. Vertical intelligence is the combination of human expertise and big data analytics applied with surgical precision and timing. As NowVertical Groups COO, Sasha Grujicic, told Neural, were coming out of a once-in-a-century pandemic....

Reducing carbon emissions from roads, railways and shipping requires implementing a range of solutions simultaneously. None of these solutions are sufficient on their own. In 2030, the sale of new diesel and petrol passenger carswill be outlawedin the UK. The future of passenger motoring will be electric. But recentproblems supplying partsand thehigh carbon cost of manufacturingelectric vehicles could delay the climate benefits of this transition. From Venus to vehicle exhausts 40% off TNW Conference!...

In a recent blogpost, the tech behemoth announced that itll bid farewell to the feature in November 2022. People still using Hangouts are urged to switch to the Chat app or Chat in Gmail. As for Hangouts users on the web? Well,Googlewont start nagging for you to switch until July. The company will automatically transfer your existing conversations to Chat. But just in case, it encourages users to download their data viaGoogle Takeoutbefore Hangouts stops being available....

Steph Curry is currently celebrating another NBA championship just 10 years after the starfeared hed never play again. Currys early years at the Golden State Warriors were plagued by chronic ankle injuries. In 2013, the teams new performance director, Keke Lyles, proposed a new explanation for the problem. Lyles believed Curry was overly reliant on his ankles for speed. The coach devised a training program that transferred power generation to the marksmans hips....

In my previous job at astartupbased in Amsterdam, my job description was how to put this flexible. As any early-stage startup member, I had to find something to do that would contribute to the company. This led me on a bureaucratic quest to find out how we could get a slice of that pie. And let me tell you, it was not easy. Let me tell you about cascade funding....

A Google AI engineer recently stunned the world byannouncingthat one of the companys chatbots had become sentient. He was subsequently placed on paid administrative leave for his outburst. His name is Blake Lemoine and he sure seems like the right person to talk about machines with souls. Not only is he a professional AI developer at Google, but hes alsoa Christian priest. Hes like a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup of science and religion....