To date, Volvoâs electric models have been using conventional automobile architecture designed for internal combustion engines. In other words, EVs look like petrol-powered cars. But now the Swedish car maker is ready to update its own design language and philosophy, and introduce us to next generation electric vehicles. On Wednesday, the company unveiled the Volvo Concept Recharge SUV and, boy, is it elegant and beautiful. Designed to be the âmanifestoâ... Read more âș
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Donât get me wrong. Pythonâs popularity is still backed by a rock-solid community of computer scientists, data scientists and AI specialists. But if youâve ever been at a dinner table with these people, you also know how much they rant about the weaknesses of Python. From being slow to requiring excessive testing, to producing runtime errors despite prior testing â thereâs enough to be pissed off about. Which is why... Read more âș
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Twitterâs into NFTs now. But thatâs not surprising given the CEO Jack Dorsey is super interested in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. But the firmâs not trying to making money from NFTs yet. Itâs simply giving away 140 of them for free. Twitter posted seven tweets yesterday showing off these pieces of digital art â so 20 copies of each are going for no cost. 140 free NFTs for 140 of... Read more âș
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Texas A&Mâs Robin Murphy has deployed robots at 29 disasters, including three building collapses, two mine disasters, and an earthquake as director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue. She has also served as a technical search specialist with the Hillsboro County (Florida) Fire and Rescue Department. The Conversation talked to Murphy to provide readers an understanding of the types of technologies that search and rescue crews at the... Read more âș
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Do you ever wonder why your coworkerâs Slack sidebar looks so much better than yours? Itâs probably because they organized it. You can tweak all sorts of settings in Slack, from how the sidebar behaves to how it looks. Letâs outline these tweaks one at a time. Only see unread channels in the Slack sidebar By default, Slack shows every channel you join and the person you DM in the... Read more âș
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For a hot second, Florida-based politicians were jumping with joy at the sight of a law that punished social media companies for banning politicians. But now, a federal judge has put a hold on it. According to NBC News, Judge Robert Hinkle blocked the law â just before it was scheduled to come into effect today. He said that the law would violate the free speech rights of social media... Read more âș
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Despite the fact that American giants like GM, Ford, and Tesla have bet big on the production of electric vehicles, the US is still lagging behind in the EV market. This is confirmed in the latest report by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). Unsurprisingly, China is the largest electric vehicle producer and makes up nearly half (44%) of the global EV production through 2020, with 4.6 million units... Read more âș
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Instagram is already a popular social network with more than 1 billion active users. But with TikTokâs ballooning growth, the firm is now thinking of moving out of its âphoto-sharing appâ silo. Last night, Instagramâs chief, Adam Mosseri, said in a video that the company is now building features focusing on creators, video, shopping, and messaging. Mosseri added that people now use Instagram âto be entertained.â He also acknowledged the... Read more âș
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Thereâs a reason digital pianos are so popular: most people either canât afford the real thing, or they canât fit them into their homes. Unfortunately, most digital pianos pale in comparison to even the most basic acoustic ones, with wimpy speakers and lackluster built-in sounds. This is unfortunate; even for beginners, having a quality piano tone can inspire you to keep practicing and get better. But what if I told... Read more âș
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If youâre captivated by the drama of the European Football Championship, have you considered watching Wimbledon instead? Tennis is, after all, a more euphoric sport to watch. Or so claims a new AI analysis. The study by British TV platform Freeview explored emotional reactions to different sports by analyzing the expressions of viewers. The 150 participants were sent content from 10 sports consisting of 30,750 frames, which were standardized to... Read more âș
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The prevailing theory on the origin of our universe goes like this: about 13.7 billion years ago a single particle exploded. The resultant blast created an ever-expanding universe that, eventually, became home to the planet we call Earth. The Big Bang theory first appeared in a scientific paper in 1931. Physicist Georges Lemaitre is credited with its creation. And the bulk of our assumptions about the universe and its rate... Read more âș
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It isnât only the USA and China that are exploring Mars. The UAE has captured new images of the red planetâs discrete aurora, which could deepen our understanding of the interactions between solar radiation, Marsâ magnetic fields, and the planetary atmosphere. Up front:  The images were taken by the Mars Hope Probeâs EMUS (Emirates Mars Ultraviolet Spectrometer) instrument, and show a ghostly glow known as the discrete aurora. The pictures... Read more âș
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Slack announced a bunch of tools today to improve the experience of work meetings. And, of course, a Clubhouse clone is a part of this. The enterprise communication firmâs live-audio conversation product is called Huddle. You can start a Huddle in a channel or a DM â even if theyâre not a part of your organization. Just like other real-time conversation products, you can hop in and hop out of... Read more âș
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TLDR: CTemplar takes email security to its farthest reaches, offering fully-encrypted, fully-secured email correspondence that always protects you and your sensitive information. A hacker cracked the Washington, D.C. Metro Police Department and stole 70,000 emails, including many which led to some serious embarrassment and questions about the department. Meanwhile, two yearsâ worth of emails from several City of Chicago employees were also stolen recently as authorities try to determine the... Read more âș
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Cyber-warfare consists of co-ordinated attacks of mass disruption (AMD). In the June summit between U.S. and Russian presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, cyber-warfare was a topic of discussion. While the Biden-Putin summit appears to be âquite constructive,â cyberwarfare remains perplexing to politicians. Attacks of mass disruption are similar to the latest ransomware attacks on SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline â imagine several co-ordinated similar attacks. For the time being, organizations... Read more âș
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Batteries, am I right? You canât live with âem, you canât⊠Ah screw a fancy lede: This is an article where I chart the battery life of the iPhone 12 range. Weâll find answers to which of Appleâs phones has the worst and best battery life and, hopefully, have a bit of fun along the way. We may even learn something. But⊠before we begin the comparison of the iPhone... Read more âș
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The National Highway Safety Administration (NHTSA) has implementing a new policy that mandates automakers report incidents involving vehicles with semi and fully autonomous systems within 24 hours of being notified of a crash. According to the Standing General Order issued on Tuesday, this applies to all vehicles equipped with a Level 2 advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) or with a Level 3 to 5 automated driving system (ADS), in case... Read more âș
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One of the best things about being an astronomer is being able to discover something new about the universe. In fact, maybe the only thing better is discovering it twice. And thatâs exactly what my colleagues and I have done, by making two separate observations, just ten days apart, of an entirely new type of astronomical phenomenon: a neutron star circling a black hole before being gobbled up. The two... Read more âș
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Google has a tight grip over internet search and thereâs not much to argue over there. Data from Statcounter suggests that close to 90% of internet users in the US use the Big G, followed by Microsoftâs Bing at 5.43%. While Googleâs dominance on the search market will seemingly continue for at least a few years, there have been questions over the companyâs privacy-related practices. Now, two former Google execs,... Read more âș
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One summer night in August, 1935, a young Soviet miner named Alexei Stakhanov managed to extract 102 tonnes of coal in a single shift. This was nothing short of extraordinary (according to Soviet planning, the official average for a single shift was seven tonnes). Stakhanov shattered this norm by a staggering 1,400%. But the sheer quantity involved was not the whole story. It was Stakhanovâs achievement as an individual that... Read more âș
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