It was just a few days ago that we wrote about an experimental Facebook product that resembled Clubhouse, but it turns out Facebook isnât done with the audio space. The company today announced a series of features coming to the social network that will provide users and creators with a variety ofnew tools to make and share audio experiences. The gist of it is that Facebook wants to put a... Read more âș
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Most fitness trackers are rather drab things. Sure, there are some smartwatches that toe the line between technology and fashion decently enough, but if you want a more basic device that emphasizes the fitness-tracking aspect, there isnât too much to choose from. Fitbit is trying to fill this gap with its new $150 Luxe tracker. As one might presume from the name, it aims to be Fitbitâs most stylish tracker... Read more âș
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In wonderful news for far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists, Apple is letting Parler back onto the App Store. The iPhone maker banned the controversial app in January after receiving complaints that the service had been used to coordinate the siege on the US Capitol. The Silicon Valley giant also found posts on the social network that âencouraged violence, denigrated various ethnic groups, races, and religions, glorified Nazism, and called for... Read more âș
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Over the next 4 years, BMW expects that 25% of its sales in China will be made up of by EVs. This is an ambitious increase of 21%, compared to last year. BMWâs China Chief, Jochen Goller, revealed the German marqueâs goal during the 2021 edition of Auto Shanghai today, Reuters reports. He also announced that BMW will launch 12 electric models in China by 2023. BMW, said Goller, is... Read more âș
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In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt around the universeâs ultimate speed limit by bending the fabric of reality. It was an intriguing idea â even NASA has been researching it at the Eagleworks laboratory â but Alcubierreâs proposal contained problems that seemed insurmountable. Now, a recent paper by US-based physicists Alexey Bobrick... Read more âș
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The UK has joined the list of countries considering the creation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Chancellor Rishi Sunak today announced a new task force that will explore the value of a CBDC, which would be issued by the Bank of England and used by households and businesses. It would exist alongside cash and bank deposits, rather than replace them. Sunak (jokingly?) suggested the digital currency could be... Read more âș
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TLDR: The Award-Winning Luminar 4 Power Bundle includes the Luminar 4 image editing app, critical training, and a whole collection of add-ons for simple, brilliant picture fixes. Itâs much easier to respect one of those image editing apps with all the firepower and versatility than it is to love it. Despite all of the amazing photo manipulation something like Adobe Photoshop can do with all of its possibilities, most picture... Read more âș
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An electric vehicle successfully takes tailpipe emissions out of the environmental equation. Fact. Charge it with renewable energy and its impact flatlines. Great. But while all this is preferable to a traditionally fuelled vehicle that will continue to pollute throughout its lifetime, a Polestar 2 still leaves the factory gates with a 26-ton CO2e production footprint. And we believe it doesnât have to.In fact, weâre committing to creating a completely... Read more âș
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NASA has made history after successfully conducting the first-ever controlled flight on another planet. The space agencyâs Ingenuity helicopter briefly flew over Mars this morning, in what NASA previously described as a âWright Brothersâ moment. The 1.8 kg chopper ascended three meters above the red planet, hovered for around 30 seconds, made a turn, and then touched back down on the Martian surface. âWe can now say that human beings... Read more âș
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Chrome 90 has a cool trick that enables support for pasting files from your desktop right into web pages where theyâre supported â like in Gmail. That should shave off a few secondsâ work when sharing attachments in your email messages. Hereâs how to... Read more âș
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Last week, we had to read the sad story of the death of two men that were traveling in a Tesla that left the road at high speed, and crashed into a tree. It subsequently burst into flames, it took firefighters hours to subdue the blaze. Itâs believed that Autopilot was engaged at the time, and local media reports that no one was in the driverâs seat. The men, one... Read more âș
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Waymo, Alphabetâs self-driving car subsidiary, is reshuffling its top executive lineup. On April 2, John Krafcik, Waymoâs CEO since 2015, declared that he will be stepping down from his role. He will be replaced by Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov, the companyâs former COO and CTO. Krafcik will remain as an advisor to the company. â[With] the fully autonomous Waymo One ride-hailing service open to all in our launch area... Read more âș
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Usually, Iâd hit my groove in a job when I was about 6 months in. At that point, all the little things that had confused me at first started making sense and my performance started to reflect that. But during the whirlwind last 6 months of launching my own startup with another first-timer â Iâve realized Iâll never experience that again. So herein lies the memoir of a relatively new... Read more âș
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Sony released the PS5 five months ago â and in that time itâs become the fastest selling console in US history. I have a question though: how can this be true when it seems I have a higher chance of acquiring one through a genieâs wish than a retailer? Who is managing to buy all these things? According to a tweet thread from the analysis firm NPD Group, the PS5... Read more âș
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On stage at the Auto Shanghai expo this week, Toyota affirmed plans for the future of its electric vehicles, and itâs going in hard! Motoring press is this morning reporting that Toyota has confirmed it will make 70 electrified vehicles by 2025, including 15 BEVs. Seven of these BEVs will be on the companyâs new bZ platform. Most notably, Toyota confirmed that it is going to bring hybrid and battery... Read more âș
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Chinaâs state-run anti-monopoly bureau has tightened its regulations on big tech players, as shown by its recent move against the countryâs largest e-commerce company, Alibaba Group. Alibaba was hit with a record antitrust fine of 18.2 billion yuan (more than A$3.6 billion) over the weekend for supposedly abusing its market dominance. The company, which operates the digital payment platform Alipay and offers bank loans to entrepreneurs, issued a public apology:... Read more âș
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The first draft of the human genome was published 20 years ago in 2001, took nearly three years and cost between US$500 million and $1 billion. The Human Genome Project has allowed scientists to read, almost end to end, the 3 billion pairs of DNA bases â or âlettersâ â that biologically define a human being. That project has allowed a new generation of researchers like me, currently a postdoctoral... Read more âș
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Boston Dynamics has made a name for itself through fascinating videos of biped and quadruped robots doing backflips, opening doors, and dancing to Uptown Funk. Now, it has revealed its latest gadget: A robot that looks like a huge overhead projector on wheels. Itâs called Stretch, it doesnât do backflips, it doesnât dance, and itâs made to do one task: moving boxes. It sounds pretty boring. But this could, in... Read more âș
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TLDR: A one-year subscription to Studio Sweat onDemand lets users create their own online fitness program through video-led and livestream workout sessions, now at 60 percent off. If COVID concerns still make you uncomfortable about going to the gym, youâre not alone. Even as the world slowly begins to reopen its doors and return to normal after the past year, many say the lessons learned in 2020 might have permanently... Read more âș
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Imagine you are in a job interview. As you answer the recruiterâs questions, an artificial intelligence (AI) system scans your face, scoring you for nervousness, empathy and dependability. It may sound like science fiction, but these systems are increasingly used, often without peopleâs knowledge or consent. Emotion recognition technology (ERT) is in fact a burgeoning multi-billion-dollar industry that aims to use AI to detect emotions from facial expressions. Yet the... Read more âș
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