California governor Gavin Newsom made a bold attempt today to eliminate sales of new gas-guzzling cars and trucks, marking a critical step in the state’s quest to become carbon neutral by 2045. But the effort to clean up the state’s largest source of climate emissions is almost certain to face serious legal challenges, particularly if […]
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From New Echo Speakers to Luna Cloud Gaming Service, Here Is a Round up of Everything That Amazon Launched Today
Amazon held an Alexa-themed event today where it announced a bunch of new products including new Echo speakers, Fire TV Sticks, Eero mesh Wi-Fi routers, Ring security products, and a new cloud gaming service. Here is everything that you need to get up to speed on Amazon’s new products. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
Apple Could Expand Pro Display XDR Nano-Texture Glass for iPhone, iPad
Apple introduced the nano-texture glass as an optional add on for Pro Display XDR. Apple is researching ways in which it can implement nano-texture glass anti-reflective on the iPhone and iPad. A newly discovered patent details how Apple is planning to use nano-texture glass on smaller devices like the iPhone and iPad. Continue reading → […]
iOS 14.0.1 and iPadOS 14.0.1 Download Available Now
Apple today released iOS 14.0.1 and iPadOS 14.0.1, the first bug-fixing release of the operating systems since their public release last week. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
Facebook wants to make AI better by asking people to break it
The explosive successes of AI in the last decade or so are typically chalked up to lots of data and lots of computing power. But benchmarks also play a crucial role in driving progress—tests that researchers can pit their AI against to see how advanced it is. For example, ImageNet, a public data set of […]
How close is AI to decoding our emotions?
Researchers have spent years trying to crack the mystery of how we express our feelings. Pioneers in the field of emotion detection will tell you the problem is far from solved. But that hasn’t stopped a growing number of companies from claiming their algorithms have cracked the puzzle. In part one of a two-part series […]
Why people might never use autonomous cars
Automated driving is advancing all the time, but there’s still a critical missing ingredient: trust. Host Jennifer Strong meets engineers building a new language of communication between automated vehicles and their human occupants, a crucial missing piece in the push toward a driverless future. We meet: Dr. Richard Corey and Dr. Nicholas Giudice, founders of […]
Google Maps now shows you where covid-19 cases are spiking
The news: Google Maps has added a new feature which lets people see the number of covid-19 cases per 100,000 people for any given area, with a label indicating if cases are trending up or down. In a blog post, Google said the functionality will start rolling out worldwide on both Android and iOS this […]
This restaurant duo want a zero-carbon food system. Can it work?
When Karen Leibowitz and Anthony Myint opened The Perennial, the most ambitious and expensive restaurant of their careers, it was essentially on a self-dare. The married duo had found enormous success with their previous restaurant in San Francisco, Mission Chinese Food, but realized something was missing. “Basically zero chefs were working on climate change,” Myint […]
Climate scientists are terrified of a second Trump term
Daniel Schrag has spent most of his life working on climate change. He studied the planet’s ancient warming periods early in his career, served as a climate advisor to President Barack Obama, and is now director of Harvard’s Center for the Environment. But when he imagines the possibilities if President Donald Trump is reelected, climate […]