After stepping out of the tub, he gave his foot a shake to get the water off. But his foot wouldnt move. Peter was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND), the same incurable illness that killed Stephen Hawking. But Peter had a plan to beat the prognosis. He was going to become a cyborg. Peter had a headstart in his race against the illness. Hed also written a book titledThe Robotics Revolution....
Our startupClearBrainwas recently acquired byAmplitude. This process, while successful, was nonetheless quite challenging at times. Thankfully we had some great investors and advisors to guide us along the way. We came to realize acquisitions actually follow a fairly consistent process. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. And if youre lucky, all three. Nothing compensates for building a great product. Products with unique technology command multiples. Both Oculus and Cruise were bought for billions before they went to market....
Ive fallen foul to clichedcargasmsand written about my love for classic car restorations that feature modern all-electric drivetrains before. All this makes it a perfectly usable modern classic. Most conventional restorations become showpieces that never get used due to their difficult upkeep. This Lunaz, though, could be used every day if you wanted. The level of respect thats been paid to the original is staggering. That said, there are a few modern additions that make the car more usable in todays world....
But what do you play when you have so many options? With that number of games, I wouldnt blame you for not knowing where to begin. Its easy for me to say Theres something for everyone, and sound confident. Dont worry Ive got you. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Ill also include games for both PC and console, and specifying which is which. Luckily both are represented in the Game Pass Haloin the form of theMaster Chief Collection....
Most plane passengers are already relatively wealthy. Thats about 230m people, but flights carried four billion passengers in 2017. So the average flyer takes eight return flights and aeroplanes rack upseven trillion air miles each year. Rationing might be a fairer and more effective alternative. Flight rationing Every person could be allocated a maximum number of flight kilometers each year. This allowance would increase the longer a person abstained from flying....
Its not a perfect process, but it works well most of the time. In the realm of artificial intelligence, this is called the one-shot learning challenge. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. [Read:New polymer coating could help brains merge with machines cyborgs incoming?] In recent years, one-shot learning AI has found successful applications including facial recognition and passport checks. One of the interesting features of convnets is their ability to extract visual features from images at different levels....
Well, were gonna do something similar, but excitingly different. So, welcome one and all to the latest specs battle: the Pixel 4a vs OnePlus Nord! Yes, this is a place where we select a few specs and whack them on some graphs. Why, you ask? !Im not legally obligated to answer that. Before we start though, a quick note: specs arent everything. Making a great phone takes a lot more than ramming numbers together....
Coworking spaces have been growing in all the worlds major cities for 15 years. But what makes them so popular? Why and when did they appear? Who are their members? New technologies such as artificial intelligence and robots are leading employers to rethink the way they work. At the same time, workers want more autonomy and flexibility. Many have chosen self-employment to escape organizational constraints and to determine where and when they will work....
Instagram has rolled out its Reels feature to everyone. Now it’s possible for you to make your own music videos within Instagram itself. Heres how to get started. Reels is a feature that allows you to record and edit short videos set to songs. Yeah, its basically TikTok. Heres how to make your first Instagram Reel or your first Reels. The singular is unclear. It’s free, every week, in your inbox....
Electric vehicle saleshave grown exponentially in recent years, accompanied by dropping prices. EVs and internal combustion engine vehicles are likely to reach sticker price parity sometime in the next decade. The timing hinges on one crucial factor: battery cost. Battery pack prices have been falling fast. A typical EV battery pack stores 10-100 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity. In 2010, the price of an EV battery pack was over $1,000 per kWh....
Talking to the internet with Python sounds scary, right? Fortunately, the internet has been in good hands for a long time. Our methods for talking to the internet are well established and surprisingly easy. Lets get straight to it. We send data in a specific format. We then get data back in a specific format. This magical box is simply a script kept on a server. Fortunately, APIs are generally very well documented and follow the same usage patterns....
NEW: Semantic Reactor has been officially released! Add it to Google Sheetshere. It would be nice, then, if machine learning could help bridge the gap between the two. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. In machine learning, embeddings are a learned way of representing data in space (i.e. points plotted on an n-dimensional grid) such that the distances between points are meaningful. Check outthis neat visualization. Where do these numbers come from?...
South Africa has thehighest emission intensity in the G20group of industrialized and developing countries. This threatens its commitment to help slow global warming. This disproportionate contribution is driven by the countryscoal-dependent national electricity utility, Eskom. In generating power, its plants release512 billion kgof carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually. To reach its targets, South Africa must reduce emissions by 32% in the next 10 years alone. But Eskom is also the engine of the economy andstruggles to meet currentdemand, with frequent rolling blackouts....
