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WhatsApps finally recognizing that people use the chat app as more than a personal communication tool. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. But to prepare for the community, WhatsApp is rolling out some other new features across the app. How do all of these features stack up against other apps? Case in point:Ephemeral messagesandpolls. Telegram already has some of the above-mentioned features. For instance, Telegram has1,000-people group calls, emoji reactions, and the ability to send 1....

This week saw Dutch ebike brandMokumonolaunch its latest two-wheeler, the Polder. I spoke to co-founder, Tom Schiller, to find out more. And the vast majority are includingCowboyandVanMoof. Sure, theres nothing wrong with this per se. You have experienced manufacturers with fully established factories with the necessary materials, molds, and equipment. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. They were, in fact, stuck on a ship waiting for unloading for almost a month....

Quite struck on this visit how ubiquitous and how pointless cookie warnings are on the web in Europe. Its more surprising to click through and not see a warning than to see one. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. After years of suffering this digital torture, a newAItool has finally offered hope of an escape. Named CookieEnforcer, the system was created by researchers from Google and the University of Wisconsin-Madison....

Did you know Michael Schlein, President and CEO atAccion, is speaking at TNW Conference this summer? Check out the full list of speakershere. The challenges facing the worlds most vulnerable people seem to keep mounting. Ouruneven global recoveryfrom the pandemic is worsening inequality and widening divides. For the first time in decades, poverty and hunger are on the rise. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. This is exactly what were working to do at Accion....

Technology has advanced tremendously in the last few years and is only going to continue to compound. If youve ever heard ofMoores Law, this is the idea that technologys complexity doubles every year. Just imagine what that means for the next few years. One industry which has experienced a major tech boom is engineering and construction. The Digital Engineering revolution is offering new opportunities to those willing to adopt new technologies and upskill....

Solid-state batteriesoffer a promising alternative to conventional lithium-ion batteries. But we have a question: how close are we to seeing them in the real world? And what are auto companies doing to make it happen? 40% off TNW Conference! Surprisingly, the first Toyotas to receive the new batteries will be hybrids not EVs. BMW and Ford:Both brandshave invested heavily in Solid Power. This has paid dividends already, as thecompany deliveredthe agreed upon pilot production line this year....

And then … the internet pauses, seeming to consider the request. 40% off TNW Conference! It might be you (sorry). It might be the infrastructure youre working with. It might be your internet provider. Lets explore some causes and solutions together. What is a good internet speed? Step one is to conduct a so-called speed test. Each uses slightly different methods, so Schwantes recommends trying both to see to it theyre consistent....

But it took 2,500 years and the invention of calculus andNewtonian physicsto explain the patterns. So could we imagine a universe in which mathematics does not work? 40% off TNW Conference! One can describe an electron, but the moment we start asking questions like What colour is it? we start to realize the inadequacies of English. The question itself is meaningless. But ask How does an electron behave? and the answer is, in principle, simple....

TheResearch Briefis a short take about interesting academic work. Cloud computing allows businesses to lease servers the same way they lease office space. But this way of hosting services raises security concerns. Each cloud server has aunique IP addressthat allows users to connect and send data. IP addresses change hands as often as every 30 minutes as organizations change the services they use. It’s free, every week, in your inbox....

Fitbit has just vaulted over a huge hurdle: it can now continuously monitor users heart rhythms. Google the owner of Fitbit declaredthat the FDA authorized the use of its new PPG (photoplethysmography) algorithm. This is used to identify atrial fibrillation (AFib), an irregular heart rhythm. 40% off TNW Conference! To validate the use of the PPG algorithm,Google ran a study involving 455,699 participants. This showed that it correctly identified moments of atrial fibrillation 98% of the time....

Hondatodayannouncedsome pretty bold electrification plans to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. 30 new EV models by 2030 Yep, you read that right.30 new EVs by 2030. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Up until then, the company will mostly lean on its partnership with GM, using theUltium EV platform. The rollout will begin in 2027, starting with North America. Unfortunately, thats all the information we have for now, but it sounds juicy....

How does a sport go from a series of events to climate activists? And an international sailing competition? So I headed to San Francisco to learn all about it. To be clear and transparent, just so you know, I attended on the leagues dime. Lets start with the basics: Whats SailGP? The sailboats are literally powered by nature (wind, sun, and water). Each season comprises eight or more events across the globe, with each event including multiple races....

It’s free, every week, in your inbox. But well also need cloud infrastructure, software, and all kinds of interfaces between classical and quantum systems. What is it? As the company put it in a recentblog post: Qiskit Runtime lets users deploy programs instead of circuits. And the new primitives take that a step further by making Qiskit even more accessible to algorithm developers. One of the things that make them particularly unique is that they produce non-classical probability distributions as their outputs....