When you think of an electric vehicle, chances are youll picture a car. But theres a quiet revolution going on in transport. There will soon be no need to burn petrol and diesel in an internal combustion engine. This matters, because electric transport will be vital in our efforts to stem climate change. If all cars on the road became powered by renewable electricity, wed cut almost one-fifth of our emissions....
Samsung justannounceda new kind of storage solution for mobile devices called UFS 4.0. Its the latest version of the Universal Flash Storage standard. Before we look at its advantages over the previous versions, lets run through some basics. Whats UFS? Universal Flash Storage (UFS) is a bang out of flash storage designed for mobile devices. Its specifications are maintained bythe Joint Electron machine Engineering Council (JEDEC), an independent industry body....
And dont worry no geology degree is needed. What is lithium? Lithium is a naturally occurring substance found in ionic minerals such as petalite, lepidolite, and spodumene. These minerals occur primarily in two places: rock formations, or underground brine reservoirs. What is lithium used for? It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Lithium is most known as an ingredient in rechargeable batteries. According toIHS Markit, in 2000, about 9% of lithium produced was used for batteries....
The notoriously secretiveMetahas set a milestone for transparency. The company this week offered the entire research community access to a fully-trained large language model (LLM). Named the Open Pretrained Transformer (OPT), the system mirrors the performance and size ofOpenAIsvaunted GPT-3 model. This mimicry is deliberate. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. No other company has ever provided this level of access to an LLM. Such openness mayappear uncharacteristic. After all, Meta is often accused of concealing its algorithms andtheir harmful impacts....
SonysWH-1000XM4is one of the best noise-canceling headphones money can buy. So were its predecessors going back to the companys OG premium noise-canceling headphone, theMDR-1000X. In other words, Sony has a pretty great streak going on. So I was excited to see leaks of the new WH-1000XM5 begin to pop up. Leaked images of the new headphones posted byThe Walkman Blogshow a design that departs significantly from Sonys usual aesthetic. For reference, heres what the previous model looked like:...
Twitter debuted a new feature calledCirclelast night that might help you shitpost better. But now, you might tune your audience for certain tweets. Last year, a Twitter designershared the conceptof having a set of trusted friends. Now its officially called Circle. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. So how does this work? Some Tweets are for everyone & others are just for people youve picked. you might include anyone even people who are not following you in that circle....
The world of AI research is in shambles. And Google deserves a lions share of the blame. Fast-forward to 2021 and there were nearly twice as many published in the US alone. To say theres been an explosion in the field would be a massive understatement. 40% off TNW Conference! But this sort of unfettered growth also has a dark side. At the top, Googles shown its willingness to hire the worlds most talented researchers....
If youve downloaded an ebook in the past decade, its likely it was an EPUB file. Well, unless you bought it fromAmazonof course. Of course, Amazon beingAmazon ignored this. The online retailer has generally used the aforementioned AZW format, its own version ofMOBI. This is a file system created by a company called Mobipocket, which Amazon purchased back in 2005. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Well, its all about consumer choice and freedom....
The problems regularly begin when switching between sources (say games consoles and television). Some have fixed this byrestarting the Sonos devices but the audio issues begin again when switching to another source. 40% off TNW Conference! Well, at least it will when they have more information on when the problem will be fixed. Until then… good luck, people. Also tagged with
Video conferencing is making us dumber and less creative and thats according to science. Hows that for a great excuse to keep your video turned off on your next Zoom call? 40% off TNW Conference! Credit:Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky on Twitter His solution? Chesky isnt the only founder making a post-pandemic move to a hybrid WFH policy. Unfortunately though, this isnt universally agreed upon. Also tagged with
Its a giant robot humanoid that looks like a cross between WALL-E and a Transformer. Sign us the hell up. First spotted byNews Atlas, therobothas a a large human-like torso and terrifying, mechanical claw-hands. Its mounted on a hydraulic crane, which rides around the rail system on a specially made vehicle. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. And although the humanoid is rather slow, it does show a significant level of dexterity....
It is mainly used for advanced applications in natural language processing. Google is using it to enhance its search engine results. OpenAI has used transformers to create its famous GPT-2 andGPT-3models. They have been used for time series forecasting. Researchers are still exploring ways to improve transformers and use them in new applications. Here is a brief explainer about what makes transformers exciting and how they work. It’s free, every week, in your inbox....
Weve known about the headset, dubbedProject Cambria, since the companychanged its nameto Meta last year. Whats different about Project Cambria? Thats going to be crucial for the companys metaverse aspirations. What will it look like? 40% off TNW Conference! Its the only official look at the headset we have. How could Project Cambria be useful for work? That would make some sense, as its an equalizer in terms of processing power....
