While the real-life Delorean still canāt go back to the future, Googleās Street View vehicles can now transport us to the past. Historial images captured by the cars have been assembled in a tool that shows how places have changed over time. The feature was previously only available on the desktop version of Google Maps, but is now available on smartphones. āStreet View is all about capturing the world as... Read more āŗ
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Twitter reports that fewer than 5% of accounts are fakes or spammers, commonly referred to as ābots.ā Since his offer to buy Twitter was accepted, Elon Musk has repeatedly questioned these estimates, even dismissing Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawalās public response. Later, Musk put the deal on hold and demanded more proof. So why are people arguing about the percentage of bot accounts on Twitter? As the creators of Botometer,... Read more āŗ
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The EV industry is striving to develop fast-charging batteries thatāll make range anxiety a thing of the past ā and it seems that whoever gets there first will have an enviable advantage. On Tuesday, Polestar officially threw its hat in the ring, announcing its investment in the Israeli battery manufacturer StoreDot. To create extreme fast-charging (XFC) batteries, StoreDot has used two different techniques. First up, it has replaced the conventional... Read more āŗ
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Fans of Apple-powered smart devices, rejoice ā itās rumored thereāll be a new HomePod released either at the end of 2022, or the start of 2023. Whatās currently unclear is whether this will be a direct replacement for the now-discontinued original HomePod, or if Apple is going to release a model thatās sized in between this and the mini ā as has been reported in the past. It isnāt all... Read more āŗ
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At last: Appleās apparently upgrading the selfie camera on the upcoming iPhone 14. Thatās from a report from a South Korean outlet Electronic Times Internet, which noted that the company has placed an order with LG Inno for front cameras that might cost thrice as much as that of the iPhone 13. Sure, thereās no guarantee that using a costlier component translates to the iPhone 14ās selfie camera being otherworldly.... Read more āŗ
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The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that, worldwide, nearly one in three (27%) women aged 15-49 years have been subjected to some form of physical and/or emotional violence by their partners. Domestic violence hasnāt decreased in the digital era, as abusers often use technology to stalk, exploit, and control their victims. According to research, such technology-based abuse features everyday tools, from smart devices to online platforms and mobile apps. For... Read more āŗ
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Renaultās newest concept car isnāt just a looker ā thereās a lot more to this prototype than just design. And yes, milk bottles are involved. Credit: Renault An unusual hybrid Called the Scenic Vision, the vehicle is a hybrid, but not in the usual sense. Its 215hp electric motor and 40kW battery are coupled with a 16kW hydrogen fuel cell. The car maker explains that by combining electric and hydrogen... Read more āŗ
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Several companies, includingĀ AppleĀ and Microsoft, are betting that the world of tomorrow will, at least in part, be carried out in the metaverse. To this end, Microsoft recently acquired the video game giant Activision Blizzard forĀ US$68.7 billion. As more of our daily activities take place online, we believe itās time to consider how this may eventually play out; if tomorrowās city dwellers prefer the metaverse to brick-and-mortar stores... Read more āŗ
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The United States Congress recently held a hearing into US government information pertaining to āunidentified aerial phenomenaā (UAPs). The last investigation of this kind happened more than 50 years ago, as part of a US Air Force investigation called Project Blue Book, which examined reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (note the change in name). The current hearings are the result of a stipulation attached to a 2020 COVID-19 relief... Read more āŗ
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In this episode of our video series Unwind With Boris ā where TNW co-founder Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten talks shop with Dutch entrepreneurs and innovators ā Crisp co-founder Eric Klaassen discusses the future of online supermarkets. When online supermarket Crisp launched in 2018, it wasnāt as if the Dutch didnāt have any grocery stores to pick from. There are several big supermarket chains in the Netherlands, such as Jumbo and... Read more āŗ
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Once upon a time, 8 megapixels on a smartphone camera was a big deal. 50 megapixels used to be impressive. Then 100 MP phones arrived and that was neat too, I guess. But does anyone really want 200 megapixels? Thatās what Motorola seems to be banking on with its upcoming flagship phones.Ā Lenovoās general manager posted an image teasing a 200-megapixel smartphone on Weibo (Lenovo owns Motorola). Read more āŗ
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MIT researchers recently made one of the boldest claims related to artificial intelligence weāve seen yet: they believe theyāve built an AI that can identify a personās race using only medical images. And, according to the popular media, they have no idea how it works! Sure. And Iād like to sell you an NFT of the Brooklyn Bridge. Letās be clear up front, per the teamās paper, the model can... Read more āŗ
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Everyone knows about recycling, from when you throw boxes in the paper bin to taking bottles back to the store in exchange for a deposit. But a growing movement now throws recycling on its head: circular design.Ā Circular design completely reimagines product design from the original blueprints to various product lifecycle stagesĀ and what happens to each product after it has fulfilled its original purpose. Itās a big deal in... Read more āŗ
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On Friday, Nissan revealed its most affordable EV to date. The so-called Sakura is a cute electric minicar with a base price of just under $14,000 (2,333,100 yen). Destined for the Japanese market, where Kei city-driving cars are popular, the Sakura comes with some pretty top-notch features for its category. Meet the mini EV. Credit: Nissan Powered by a 20kW lithium-ion battery, the EV has a top speed of 130km/h... Read more āŗ
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Imagine this: youāre having a nice day, the weather is great, youāve enjoyed a brilliant breakfastā¦ and suddenly your iPhone shows a photo memory with your ex to inadvertently ruin your day. Why, you ask, as you curse the heavens, does this have to happen to you? Well, Appleās Photos app has a Memories feature that shows you algorithmically curated collections of photos and videos ā based on different factors... Read more āŗ
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What happens when you publish research about car emissions that manages to piss off not just ICE owners but those using electric vehicles? Well, people have a lot of feelings.Ā In 2020, UK independent emissions testing firm Emissions Analytics published a research paper claiming that tire particulate wear emissions were 1,000 times worse than exhaust emissions. It generated a huge amount of attention, with the story translated into over 40... Read more āŗ
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In this episode of our video series Unwind With Boris ā where TNW co-founder Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten talks shop with Dutch entrepreneurs and innovators ā Crisp co-founder Eric Klaassen discusses the future of online supermarkets. When online supermarket Crisp launched in 2018, it wasnāt as if the Dutch didnāt have any grocery stores to pick from. There are several big supermarket chains in the Netherlands, such as Jumbo and... Read more āŗ
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This article is part of our coverage of the latest in AI research. For humans, working with deformable objects is not significantly more difficult than handling rigid objects. We learn naturally to shape them, fold them, and manipulate them in different ways and still recognize them. But for robots and artificial intelligence systems, manipulating deformable objects present a huge challenge. Consider the series of steps that a robot must take... Read more āŗ
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The European Central Bank and its counterparts in the UK, US, China, and India are exploring a new form of state-backed money built on similar online ledger technology to cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ethereum. So-called central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) envision a future where weāll all have our own digital wallets and transfer money between them at the touch of a button, with no need for high-street banks to... Read more āŗ
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This article is part of ourĀ coverage of the latest inĀ AI research. In early May, Meta released Open Pretrained Transformer (OPT-175B), a large language model (LLM) that can perform various tasks. Large language models have become one of the hottest areas of research in artificial intelligence in the past few years. OPT-175B is the latest entrant in the LLM arms race triggered by OpenAIāsĀ GPT-3, a deep neural network... Read more āŗ
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