More than 100 countries, including the United States and members of the European Union, have committed to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The world is going to need a lot of metal, particularly copper. Recently, the International Energy Agency sounded the warning bell on the global supply of copper as the most widely used metal in renewable energy technologies. With Goldman Sachs predicting copper demand to grow up to 600%... Read more âș
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Well, itâs a no brainer: EVs are good for the environment and ICEs are bad. Itâs as simple as that. Yet, there are of course the electrification opposers, flaunting as an argument that electric vehicles arenât actually âzero-emission.â Okay, Iâll give them that, no vehicle is 100% green, and there are indeed greenhouse emissions in the life-cycle of EVs. But even when you take that into account, EVs are still... Read more âș
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Iâm puzzled as to why the planets, stars and moons are all round (when) other large and small objects such as asteroids and meteorites are irregular shapes? â Lionel Young, age 74, Launceston, Tasmania This is a fantastic question Lionel, and a really good observation! When we look out at the Solar System, we see objects of all sizes â from tiny grains of dust to giant planets and the... Read more âș
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Pure joy often strikes you in the most unexpected places. Take this morning, for example. I woke after an awful nightâs sleep, expecting a terrible day, and instead I was met with OCEARCH, a shark tracker app. Wonder what Iâm talking about it? Well, OCEARCH is an organization dedicated to supporting marine life. One of the things it does to try and achieve this is to track marine life across... Read more âș
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Xiaomi is not really a household name in every part of the world, but thanks to its exponential growth in several regions, it has managed to beat Apple in Q2 2021 smartphone shipments worldwide. According to a report by analytics firm Canalys, the Chinese tech company grabbed 17% percent of the market, while Apple registered a 14% market share. Samsung was on the top of the charts with a 19%... Read more âș
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With Windows 11 dramatically changing the way Windows looks, itâs only natural that Microsoft would radically redesign its emoji. The companyâs design team today announced that it had redesigned over 1,800 emoji, coming later this year. And just as promised, one of those changes includes redesigning the paper clip emoji as Clippy, everyoneâs favorite virtual assistant. While the reintroduction of Clippy is a cute easter egg â I expect the... Read more âș
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Facebook may technically have more users than any other social media platform, but that doesnât mean itâs necessarily the most popular. Now it looks like someone at Facebook is at least a little jealous of Instagramâs success. At least, thatâs what a new test hitting the Instagram app suggests. As noted by Engadget, Instagram is testing a blurb at the top of usersâ feeds that reminds them of features that... Read more âș
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A gap-year student will join Jeff Bezos on his ego trip to the edge of space â because the original passenger is too busy. The anonymous auction winner had spent an eye-watering $28 million for a ticket on the spaceship, but has dropped out âdue to scheduling conflicts.â The seat will now be taken by Dutch teenager Oliver Daemen, who will become the first paying customer to fly on the... Read more âș
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IBM today announced a new machine-learning, end-to-end pipeline starter kit for its Cloud Native Toolkit. The big idea here is that wrangling the myriad open-source and enterprise ML and AI platforms and solutions into production can be a challenging prospect. Per IBMâs developer blog: Moving an application from a Jupyter notebook to a production environment requires numerous components to work together. These components cover a wide range of tasks that... Read more âș
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Valve today officially announced the existence and launch window for the long-rumored Steam Deck. Coming this December, the Steam Deck is a portable gaming PC rocking a custom AMD APU (Zen2, RDNA2). Introducing Steam Deck: powerful, portable PC gaming starting at $399. Designed by Valve, powered by Steam. Shipping December 2021. Learn more at https://t.co/ZOTx3KUCVK and reserve yours tomorrow. #SteamDeck pic.twitter.com/jcgbaKfT9c â Steam (@Steam) July 15, 2021 It looks fantastic... Read more âș
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Some of the biggest retailers in the US are using facial recognition to monitor people in their stores, according to new research. A coalition of civil rights groups says that retails giants including Macyâs, Ace Hardware, and Loweâs are currently using the tech to monitor people who enter or work in their stores. The group is calling for the companies to end the practice. âConstant surveillance, tracking, and data collection... Read more âș
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Discord is a instant messaging and digital distribution platform designed for creating communities. With over 100 million users, the service allows you to communicate with voice calls, video calls, text messaging, media and files in private chats, or ,as part of communities called âserversâ. With this extensive API, Discord allows developers to build bots that perform repetitive, mundane, or even fun tasks. With a Discord bot, users can moderating and... Read more âș
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Boris is the wise olâ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur in tech â from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can get his musings straight to your inbox by signing up for his newsletter! Thereâs a story about one of the chief innovators at Nokia, who receives a call while walking at the beach. After a few minutes, the person calling... Read more âș
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The Italian historic coachbuilder Pininfarina may have stopped designing cars for Ferrari, but has sure been busy lately. Just two weeks ago, the firm announced itâs going to create a 1000hp electric truck for the EV startup Hercules, and on Wednesday revealed its utterly sleek Teorema concept. Credit: Pininfarina It looks very futuristic, doesnât it? The Teorema is Pininfarinaâs first 100% virtually developed concept car and aims to offer âan... Read more âș
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TLDR: AdGuard is bringing their ad blocking and security expertise to this 5-year VPN subscription, now available at almost 90 percent off its regular price. If your summer plans are taking you out on the road for the first time in a while, there are some points youâd do well to consider. One is giving some serious thought to upping your web security during your travels because web attacks are... Read more âș
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While Elon Muskâs brain-chip startup screws around with gamer monkeys, another team of scientists has reached a true milestone in neuroprosthetics: enabling a man who canât speak to generate sentences with his mind. Researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) achieved the feat using an implant that decodes full sentences from brain activity. They tested the system on a man in his late 30s, who suffered a brainstem... Read more âș
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Stop the presses: Netflix planning to get into games. As per a report from Bloomberg, the company has hired Mike Verdu, a former Electronic Arts and Facebook executive, to spearhead this new project. At Facebook, Verdu worked to bring games to platforms such as Oculus. And at Netflix, as a VP of game development, heâll try and bring games to screens where we stream Netflix. The report noted that the... Read more âș
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Normally, my day job involves a healthy dose of dread. There are time pressures, a storyâs wider impact, and if Iâm actually, well, right. But this piece has none of that â because itâs about a dumb meme of people involved with The French Dispatch. Letâs take a step back. The French Dispatch is the latest film from first year film studentsâ favorite director Wes Anderson. Oringally scheduled for release... Read more âș
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The cryptocurrency bitcoin now uses up more electricity a year than the whole of Argentina, according to recent estimates from the University of Cambridge. Thatâs because the creation of a bitcoin, in a process called mining, is achieved by powerful computers that work night and day to decode and solve complex mathematical problems. The energy these computers consume is unusually high. Police in the UK recently raided what they believed... Read more âș
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On Wednesday, the European Union spelled doom for petrol and diesel cars, proposing to ban the sale of new âtraditional vehiclesâ by 2035. The ban is part of the âFit for 55â climate package measures that aim to combat global warming. The European Commission made the following encouraging proposals: CO2 emissions from motor vehicles must drop by 55% by 2030, and reach zero by 2035. Plug-in hybrids will count as... Read more âș
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