The Next Web
How Polestar is using blockchain to increase transparency
3 days ago –
Annual car sales are unlikely to reach pre-COVID-19 levels
anytime soon. In fact, experts say that the rate of recovery is
forecasted to be a result of a slowdown in internal combustion engine
(ICE) vehicles, with electric vehicles gaining a positive trajectory
during the pandemic recovery period...
( Don't these people understand consumer concerns ? You will not be enthusiastic to buy a car - at a premium cost - which is a pain to fill up. I don't care what that might entail. Nor is range anxiety something that will attract you for applications covering summer vacation. More than one vehicle is not an attractive 'solution' - until an affordable Aptera actually becomes available in the real world. I have had electric bikes, which are fun - with included vandalism and limited reliability and season - and lack of civic acceptance. )
China and UAE are headed to Mars — here’s what they hope to discover
3 days ago –
How times have changed since the Apollo era. Within the space of
a few days, two space missions from China and the United Arab Emirates
(UAE), respectively, are set to reach Mars. The UAE’s Hope mission will
go into orbit around Mars on February 9. The next day, the Chinese
Tianwen-1 mission – an...
This human genome does not exist: Researchers taught an AI to generate fake DNA
2 days ago –
File this one under: While the rest of the world was busy trying
to get virtual assistants to tell dad jokes, researchers in Estonia
figured out how to Deepfake people at the molecular level. We’ve seen a
delightful onslaught of AI-generated content over the last few years
from generative adversa...
Scientists say GPT-3 could handle your overloaded inbox so you can get back to work
2 days ago –
A team of researchers from University College Maastricht
recently published a study exploring the use of GPT-3 as an email
manager. As someone with an inbox that can only be described as
ludicrous, color me intrigued. The big idea: We spend hours a day
reading and responding to emails, what if an...
( Maybe you do. I've given up ages ago, ending up with thousands of unread files...under more than 1 address ! Just deleting them is more work than it's worth. Nor am I much better on Messenger. Heck, my electronics chime all the time - and I don't know why. )
Icons8 isn’t just a stock photo library. It virtually lets you create your own stock photos
a day ago –
TLDR: With an Icons8 Photo Plan, you can fully edit and
customize more than 100,000 professionally-photographed stock images for
all your image use needs royalty-free. Few sites do have the time or
resources to create the perfect image from scratch for every story. And
that same crunch goes for ...
GoCycle’s new folding ebikes get updated motors and start from $3,999
a day ago –
We’re big fans of GoCycle’s folding ebikes here at SHIFT. We
appreciate their unique approach to design, simple folding mechanisms,
and highly tuneable motors. Naturally, we’re excited to hear that a new
version is on the way! It’s called the G4, but rather than replacing the
G3, GoCycle says the...
Twitter follows government order to block 500 accounts in India — keeps journos out of it
16 hours ago –
Twitter said today that it’s taken action on more than 500
accounts in India, including permanently suspending some of them, based
on government order. The social media company said that in the last 10
days, “several separate blocking orders by the Ministry of Electronics
and Information Technolo...
Instagram won’t recommend Reels with a TikTok logo — and it’s unfair
18 hours ago –
In order to promote short videos created on its own platform,
Instagram will stop recommending videos with logos of other apps,
including TikTok. As first noted by The Verge, the company published a
bunch of new guidelines for creators to get the best results possible on
the platform. These tips,...
a day ago –
Spotify has been able to show live lyrics during music
playback for ages… unless you live in the US (and a few other unlucky
regions). But fret no more, Americans with a penchant for impromptu
karaoke: the service has begun testing the feature in the US with a
limited number of users. A company s...
NASA: We should look for polluted planets if we want to find smart ETs
42 minutes ago –
And you shall know them by the pollution in their skies: A team
of NASA-funded researchers may have developed a new method for sussing
out intelligent extraterrestrial life. TL;DR: It’s nitrogen-dioxide. Up
front: Finding evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life in an
infinite universe is, p...
Chinese tech giant Baidu reportedly plans to launch an AI chip company
2 hours ago –
Baidu is reportedly planning to launch a subsidiary AI chip
firm, which could boost China‘s efforts to develop a domestic
semiconductor industry. CNBC reports that the search giant is in talks
with venture capital firms GGV and IDG Capital about investing in the
venture. The company would sell ch...
Tech Crunch
Labster gets millions from a16z to bring virtual science lab software to the world
13 hours ago –
Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm with $16.5 billion
in assets under management, has poured millions into an edtech startup
that sells virtual STEM lab simulations to institutions.
Copenhagen-based Labster, which sells virtual science laboratory
simulations to schools, announced today t...
‘Knowledge hacking’ app Uptime raises $16M
13 hours ago –
Uptime, the self-described “knowledge hacking” app, has raised
$16 million in seed funding, after officially launching on iOS in
January. Positioned as a “micro-learning” platform,” Uptime presents
five-minute “knowledge hacks” from books, courses and documentaries. The
idea is to let you quickly...
Snap partners with ShareChat’s Moj to roll out Camera Kit
14 hours ago – to integrate its
Camera Kit into the Indian app as the American social giant looks to
accelerate its growth in the world’s second largest internet market.
This is the first time Snap has partnered with an Indian firm for its
Camera Kit technology, which...
3 adtech and martech VCs see major opportunities in privacy and compliance
9 hours ago –
There seems to be plenty of activity in adtech and martech,
particularly across the commerce ecosystem with tools that support
monetization for small merchants.
SmartHop raises a $12M Series A to ease trucking logistics
10 hours ago –
If you are a founder and launched a startup last February of
2020 just before the pandemic hit, then you may have felt like you were
living the ultimate business nightmare. But if your company serves to
stabilize the supply-chain business, then, in fact, you may have hit the
ground running at jus...
Ramp secures $150M debt line from Goldman Sachs as the corporate spend market grows
10 hours ago –
This morning Ramp, a startup that competes in the corporate
spend market, announced that it has secured a $150 million debt facility
with Goldman Sachs. Ramp previously raised a $30 million Series B in
late December 2020, after raising a $23 million Series A earlier in the
same year. TechCrunch s...
How I Podcast: Welcome to Your Fantasy’s Eleanor Kagan
an hour ago –
The beauty of podcasting is that anyone can do it. It’s a rare
medium that’s nearly as easy to make as it is to consume. And as such,
no two people do it exactly the same way. There are a wealth of hardware
and software solutions open to potential podcasters, so setups run the
gamut […]
Commercializing deep tech startups: A practical guide for founders and investors
an hour ago –
Deep tech companies have the capability to create new markets
with little competition and can replace existing technologies while
fundamentally transforming an industry.
Toyota to bring three new electrified vehicles to U.S. market
an hour ago –
Toyota Motor North America said Wednesday it will bring three
new electrified vehicles to the U.S. market, as the automaker seeks to
win over customers by offering a variety of lower emission and
zero-emission cars and SUVs. Two of the new vehicles will be
all-electric and one will be a plug-in h...
The Verge
Apple will replace these MacBook Pro batteries for free if they don’t charge past one percent
21 hours ago –
Apple has launched a new, free battery replacement program for
2016 and 2017 MacBook Pros that won’t charge past one percent. The issue
affects “a very small number of customers,” according to Apple.
If your battery is affected, you’ll see a “Service Recommended” message
when checking the battery...
Nvidia is requiring laptop makers to be more transparent about RTX 30-series specs
7 hours ago –
Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge
Update February 10th, 10:31AM ET: The bullet list at the bottom now
reflects that Gigabyte has updated all of its product pages with the
required information about the RTX 30-series graphics chips its laptops
use.
Nvidia is now requiring, not just enc...
8 hours ago –
The latest absurd YouTube video to do the rounds is that of a
lawyer named Rod Ponton who accidentally attended a civil hearing on
Zoom wearing a cat filter (and couldn’t figure out how to turn it off).
While we’re not absolutely sure where Mr. Ponton’s filter came from
(according to an article ...
Twitter’s Trump ban is permanent, even if he runs for office again
6 hours ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Former President Donald Trump will not be returning to Twitter at any
point in the future, according to the company’s chief financial officer.
In an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box program on Wednesday, Twitter
CFO Ned Segal said that running for p...
Here are the best Amazon Echo deals right now
4 hours ago –
The Echo Show 5 (left), Echo Show 8 (middle), and the Echo Show
(right) | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge
When it comes to the Echo smart speakers, Amazon has a slew of devices
to choose from, one for practically every occasion. For example, maybe
you simply want to add Alexa to a room, ...
5 hours ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Instagram is toughening its stance on hate speech in direct messages.
The company announced today that it’ll start disabling the accounts of
people who repeatedly send hateful messages. First-time offenders won’t
be able to send messages for an unde...
PSA: if you use Slack on Android, you should update your password
17 minutes ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
You should change your Slack password if you used the app on Android,
according to an email sent out by the company and published by Android
Police, Apparently, from December 21st to January 21st, the Android
version of the Slack app would store use...
29 minutes ago – If the test has rolled out to you and your
system is set to dark mode, the background of Google’s search pages will
be a very dark gray.
Here’s an example of what the dark mode looks like:
It’s unclear...
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