Its been almost a week and Im still thinking aboutApples Studio Display. I can feel you salivating at the thought of that. 40% off TNW Conference! Firstly, it has six speakers. Secondly, Apple has integrated the A13 Bionic chip into the Studio Display. This is the same hardware that powered the iPhone 11 Pro and ninth-generation iPad. In other words, its a serious bit of kit. With a lot of potential too....
Imagine a cup of tea. Wrap a piece of string around the circumference of the cup, and measure the length of the string. Finally, divide the circumference by the diameter, and record the result. Next time you eat soup, repeat the process with the bowl. You just stumbled upon a universal law of circular objects. But the fascination with the number pi goes back millennia. It’s free, every week, in your inbox....
Okay, who doesnt love a good conspiracy theory? Why, you ask? To make you buy anEV, of course. Lets take a look at whats swirling around in social media. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Can such theories prove to be dangerous? Conspiracy theories are as old as time. The danger lies in how conspiracy theories can now spread like wildfire. Naturally, everyones entitled to believe whatever they want its a democratic principle, after all....
Theres no such thing as a perpetual motion machine well, except maybetime crystals. But as farebikesare concerned, theVello Bike+is about as close to a perpetual motion machine as it gets. The Vello Bike+ is super lightweight for an ebike at 14kg (31 lb). It uses a fancy Gates Carbon belt and other high-quality components. 40% off TNW Conference! But I hope it makes its way across the pond soon because theres nothing else quite like it....
Its hard to take a few breaths on the internet without hearingabout Web3lately. However, its not as accessible or ubiquitous as it might sound. Ideally, all of that should be handled by those browsers, but thats not the case just yet. Before we explore all that in detail, we will use some terms repeatedly in this story. dApps:Decentralized applications running on blockchain-based protocols. Blockchain:A decentralized protocol for Web3 projects. Think of it as a public ledger that keeps track of all transactions....
But conversations around the promises of themetaverseand web3 havebusinessesand employees excited about the possibilities. The metaverse promises to solve hybrid workplace obstacles but is it really the silver bullet solution? So why are companies so excited about the metaverse? Working in the metaverse would allow workers to be 100% remote, while still allowing for social interaction. And for employees, this means they would get the freedom and flexibility of working from anywhere they want....
Have you ever felt a creeping sensation that someones watching you? Then you turn around and you dont see anything out of the ordinary. Depending on where you were, though, you might not have been completely imagining it. There are billions of things sensing you every day. They are everywhere, hidden in plain sight inside your TV, fridge, car and office. But they came witha cost in terms of intrusiveness and loss of privacy....
Should automakers hold all the power or should data be democratized amongst various stakeholders? It’s free, every week, in your inbox. For this reason, independent companies are asking for EU rules that will level the playing field. Find Careys coverage onReuters. Story byIoanna Lykiardopoulou Ioanna is a writer at TNW. With a background in the humanities, she has a soft spot for social impact-enabling technologies. Also tagged with
This article is part of our coverage of the latest inAI research. What is the next step toward bridging the gap between natural and artificial intelligence? Scientists and researchers are divided on the answer. LeCun has been thinking and talking aboutself-supervised and unsupervised learningfor years. The latter is referred to as out-of-distribution generalization or sensitivity to edge cases. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Those are problems that humans and animals learn to solve very early in their lives....
And the trade is entirely legal in the U.S. ## What kinds of location data sales do Apple and Google allow for apps in their stores? Apple and Google both have policies for companies selling location data. But its not clear if the tech giants enforce those policiesor even how they would do so. Only two companies, of about a dozen, were mentioned in the apps privacy policy. That all gives the impression of in line with the Apple store policy....
Micromobility firm TIER has announced a new partnership that gives ageing electric lithium batteries a second life. 40% off TNW Conference! We always first prioritize reuse over recycling according to circular economy principles. So, its absolutely critical that we scale up the reuse of batteries. Vertical Values repairs the defective escooter batteries and extracts the cells from broken escooter batteries. Each extracted cell is evaluated individually to determine its SoH (State of Health)....
Attackers might be trying to steal your information. The page usually gives you an option to proceed to the website anyway. Why did I get rerouted to this page? It’s free, every week, in your inbox. These indicate two important things. The use of HTTPS indicates that the website uses a secure certificate to move information across the web. Other browsers haveadopted similar measures. Will my information really be stolen if I proceed to the website anyway?...
Were now years into this great experiment in remote work. It started off as aZoom, but now it feels more like a plod. Face-muting is ok Communicating remotelyisnt new. For ages, we corresponded by mail. Then we added telegraphs, which increased the speed of communication. Then came telephones, which allowed us to communicate beyond cables. Fax, email, instant messagethe communication options continued to grow. We didnt see each others faces, yet business still thrived....
