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40% off TNW Conference! We undertook an extensive consultation to hear the views from as many people as possible. Three rental e-scooter operators Lime,TierandDottare currently taking part in the trials. Do EVs excite your electrons? Do ebikes get your wheels spinning? Do self-driving cars get you all charged up? 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....

Apple AirPodsare incredibly reliable and give users as much quality sound as they need. Unfortunately, many users will run into issues with them at some point. One of the most common issues is finding that only one of your AirPods is working. The good news is that you dont need to throw out the AirPods you own and replace them. Instead, try these quick and easy fixes. There are ways to get AirPodbatteries to last longerif you get desperate....

you might now tune your guitar or any other instrument on Google Search. How, you ask? Simply punch in google tuner into the search box, as noted byAndroid Police. Youre then presented with a chromatic tuner that tells you how close you are to the right pitch. It works on both desktop and mobile devices. Now if you ask me, its the search query itself thats a little awkward. I certainly wouldnt first think to key in in google tuner if I wanted to tune my guitar....

While more than 88 mobile web connection operators support this communication standard, you cant use it on iPhones. Today, Android SVP Hiroshi Lockheimercheekily tweetedabout helping Apple deploy RCS. Group chats don’t need to break this way. There exists a Really Clear Solution. Here’s an open invitation to the folks who can make this right: we are here to help. On the other hand, a ton of users have demanded to bring iMessage on Android....

Welcome to Codifying Humanity. A new Neural series that analyzes the machine learning worlds attempts at creating human-level AI. Read the first article:Can humor be reduced to an algorithm? Kurzweils predicted the advent of over 100 technology advances witha greater than 85% success rate. The problem Machines have no impetus towards sentience. 40% off TNW Conference! Our biological programming directives may never get resolved. We live because the alternative is death and, for whatever reason, we have asurvival instinct....

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The top 25 entries were announced over the summer, with the five finalists named in September. What can they win? ChargBnB aims to make these stations more accessible by creating what it calls the AirBnb of EV charging. Mimbly: Swedens finalist aims to address several environmental issues related to doing laundry with a single rig. Micro-plastic tire wear particles are a leading cause of ocean pollution and a contributor to air pollution....

The quadcopters flight lessons took place in a simulation. Analgorithmfirst piloted a computer-generated drone through a simulated environment that contained complex obstacles. This data was used to train the dronesneural networkto predict a flight path based on information from onboard sensors. 40% off TNW Conference! The approach has several advantages over other methods. The direct mapping of sensory observations to flight trajectories reduces processing latency. The system also increases robustness to perception disturbances, such as motion blur and missing data....

Facebook announced a bunch of tools and resources to spread awareness about mental health last night. This move comes ahead of Mental Health Day on October 10. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. A lot of these pages and tools are results of work done by people not working at the company. Theyre simply using Facebooks platforms to host them, and the company cant take credit for that. Maybe its time for some introspection, Zuck?...

An increasing number of places require visitors to prove their vaccination status before being allowed in. Other cities,such as Los Angeles, are considering similar measures. At least one international airline and many cruisesrequire a vaccine. Staff and students for some school districtsmust be vaccinated. And many sports venuesare joining the push. One option is to carry your paper vaccination card (dont laminate it). But there are also several ways to securely keep a digital copy handy on your mobile phone....

It’s free, every week, in your inbox. This suggested that the rocks were harder and therefore easier to take a sample of. This time Perseverance successfully extracted and stored two core samples from the grayish, wind-polished rock. But scientists dont have to wait that long to learn about the rocks. At both sites, Perseverance used theSHERLOCandPIXLspectrometers on its arm to measure the composition of the rocks. First in flight Perseverance may be a long way from Earth, but it has a sidekick....

Im writing from the in-between. Im not doing great, sure, but Im not doing bad. Im sitting here, typing these words Im functioning. History suggests that, in a couple of days, Ill be in a pretty good place. Thats been the cycle since March 2020. The past couple of years have been hard on all of us, in different ways. But I wager more than a few people reading this article are traveling along their own personal good/in-between/bad spectrum....

For a while, digital twins seemed like the latest buzzword: intriguing but somewhat intangible. 40% off TNW Conference! Cityzenith is aiming to unlock these benefits at scale through itsglobal Clean Cities Clean Futureinitiative. Cityzenith plans to bring 100 cities on board by 2024 and 300 by 2026. The initial focus is on buildings as one of the biggest sources of emissions. This is also an important principle for building retrofits and long-term energy efficiency....