Welcome to the fifth annual “Neural’s AI predictions” article! That makes this one of the longest running series in Neural’s history. And, this year, we aim to set the bar higher than it’s ever been with our best round of insights yet. Gather round, grab some hot chocolate, and let’s see what the experts think is about to happen next in the world of AI: Natalie Monbiot, Head of Strategy... Read more ›
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Next time you catch a cab in New York City, it might be an electric Mustang Mach-E. Yes, folks, Ford’s mass-market EV will dress in yellow and join the city’s iconic taxi ranks. Here it is! Credit: Gravity What’s happening? The Mustang will join the electric taxi fleet of EV startup Gravity, which is already planning to deploy a Tesla Model Y as well. The company hopes to have a... Read more ›
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Last year, I waxed lyrical about the joy of getting an Xbox Series X. Specifically, I noted that opening a new console is the closest you can get to that Christmas-time vibe as an adult. I still stand by that statement. And over the past year, the Xbox has been a beloved companion, a way of staying in touch with friends, and keeping me going through bleak months. But… there... Read more ›
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We saw an intriguing piece of news this morning, as reported in Euractiv. The Finnish environmental ministry is discussing the idea of a temporarily lower vehicle tax or subsidy for women buying electric cars. Finland currently has a €2,000 ($2260) purchase subsidy from the Finnish government (with a maximum price of €50,000 or $56,000) for people buying a new electric car or signing a long-term lease agreement for an electric... Read more ›
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Autonomous weapon systems – commonly known as killer robots – may have killed human beings for the first time ever last year, according to a recent United Nations Security Council report on the Libyan civil war. History could well identify this as the starting point of the next major arms race, one that has the potential to be humanity’s final one. The United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons debated... Read more ›
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If you’re considering buying an EV, I’m sure there’s a big question going around in your mind: how much range do I need? Will a cheaper model with lower range do its job or should you go the extra mile dollar and opt for a vehicle with, say, 300-400km? The thing is, there isn’t a single correct answer, as the ideal range for any driver depends on a number of... Read more ›
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Nissan recently announced a new £13 billion investment to help transition its business to being focused around electric vehicles (EVs). The investment is centred around its Sunderland plant in the north east of England, which already makes the popular Nissan Leaf, and a plan to build 23 new electric models by 2030. But Nissan, like most traditional automakers, has a long way to go if it wants to catch Tesla.... Read more ›
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Dozens of pitch decks rush into investors’ mailboxes daily. If you ask what the founders usually emphasize, it’s — unsurprisingly — a “we’re disrupting the market” claim. Sure, a founder must believe in the product. However, it’s not about unique technology but more about convincing customers that their old pattern is less convenient. That is easy enough to do at the later stages with the positive unit economy in hand.... Read more ›
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AI is having a big impact on photo editing, but the results are proving divisive. The proponents say that AI unleashes new artistic ideas and cuts the time creators spent on monotonous work. Critics, however, argue that the techniques distort reality and propagate an artificial homogeneity. A new entry to the debate is GFP-GAN. The system gives low-quality images a high-resolution revamp — and the results can be impressive. GFP-GAN’s... Read more ›
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Sometimes, I like a weird idea or two, especially if it involves two things that don’t fit together, like balloons and the internet or cargo ships and kites…. Remember when X, a subsidiary company of Alphabet — yes, the parent company of Google — was working on Project Loon? It uses giant balloons to beam the internet to people living in remote parts of the world? In January this year,... Read more ›
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Earlier in May, Michelin introduced the Pilot Sport EV tire, its first tire especially made to address the need of electric vehicles. Now we have another car tire manufacturer who’s focusing on the EV industry: Goodyear. In a press release, the company announced its first EV-dedicated replacement tire in North America, the ElectricDrive GT. Why would EVs need special tires to begin with, you ask? Well, it all comes down... Read more ›
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On Dec. 14, the governments of British Columbia, Alberta, and Québec ordered facial recognition company Clearview AI to stop collecting — and to delete — images of people obtained without their consent. Discussions about the risks of facial recognition systems that rely on automated face analysis technologies tend to focus on corporations, national governments, and law enforcement. But what is of great concern are the ways in which facial recognition... Read more ›
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As international air travel rebounds after COVID-19 restrictions, greenhouse gas emissions from aviation are expected to rise dramatically – and with it, scrutiny of the industry’s environmental credentials. Aviation emissions have almost doubled since 2000 and in 2018 reached one billion tonnes. Climate Action Tracker rates the industry’s climate performance as critically insufficient. As the climate change threat rapidly worsens, can aviation make the transition to a low-carbon future –... Read more ›
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There are three things that are certain in this world: death, taxes, and new goddamn phones. While the global chip shortage has put a dampener on the gadget industry, it has still marched stoically forward and we’ve seen a deluge of excellent smartphones hit the market. But to quote Highlander, there can be only one. Or three. Yeah, now I think about it, actually three. In other words, we’ve selected... Read more ›
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If, like me, you have friends who’ve lived the ‘digital nomad’ life you probably understand that tinge of jealousy you get when you see Instagram stories about their weekend bike trip to a secluded beach or their Friday work drinks aboard a boat cruising through historic canals. After this long period of lockdowns and quarantine, the itch to travel and experience new things has gotten even stronger. Luckily, if you... Read more ›
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Since I got started in 2010, I’ve been a part of fifteen unsuccessful business projects. You could say, therefore, that my business career has mostly featured failure. But without the lessons I learned along the way, I never would have been able to get to the point of running one of the hottest startups in e-transportation, which is even making a splash around the world by selling record-breaking electric bikes.... Read more ›
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The big idea Game theory, which tries to predict how the behavior of competitors influences the choices the other players make, can help researchers find the best ways to share biomedical data while protecting the anonymity of the people contributing the data from hackers. Modern biomedical research, such as the National COVID Cohort Collaborative and the Personal Genome Project, requires large amounts of data that are specific to individuals. Making... Read more ›
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The need to transition to clean energy is apparent, urgent and inescapable. We must limit Earth’s rising temperature to within 1.5 C to avoid the worst effects of climate change — an especially daunting challenge in the face of the steadily increasing global demand for energy. Part of the answer is using energy more efficiently. More than 72 per cent of all energy produced worldwide is lost in the form... Read more ›
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It is not surprising that many of us have been suffering from digital overload during the pandemic, and taking care of our “digital wellbeing” has become a common theme. Social media, online shopping, making reservations, and even necessary chores like paying bills have meant that technology has pervaded every aspect of our lives. Whether home schooling or working from home, our mobile phones have never been far from our side.... Read more ›
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This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. Deep learning can help discover mathematical relations that evade human scientists, a recent paper by researchers at DeepMind shows. Like many things coming from the Alphabet-owned artificial intelligence lab, the paper, which is titled “Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI,” has received much attention from... Read more ›
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