This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. Jersey Cityâs on-demand transit program Via Jersey City is expanding to provide a weekend service, Mayor Steve Fulop has announced. The expansion... Read more âș
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In entrepreneurship, nothing goes as expected. No amount of research and preparation can ensure that a business goes according to plan. This has never been truer than during the past year, as startups battle the impact of COVID-19 in addition to the ordinary challenges of launching a company. At Wilbur Labs, my team and I recently surveyed 150 founders on why startups fail and found that 70% faced business failure... Read more âș
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Volvo has missed a trick, and sullied its name by not being the first to make an all-electric station wagon (thatâs an estate car for you Brits). In fact, that title has gone to MG, the formerly British brand thatâs now owned by Chinaâs SAIC. Called the MG5, the electric wagon is due for a European release in October this year. Details are pretty sparse right now, but MG says... Read more âș
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Iâve goofed up in presentations plenty of times because I didnât have enough practice or I got nervous. Thankfully, Microsoft PowerPointâs AI-powered coach can help you avoid those mistakes. The coach was first released in 2019 on the web. Now, it is now rolling out to all platforms â Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android. In the coach mode, the AI listens to your presentations and gives you suggestions based on... Read more âș
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Thereâs something cool and meta about interacting with, playing as, or fighting against an artificial intelligence in video games. AI has captured our imagination in print, film, and even song, but games give us the space to interact with and see fantastical worlds from otherwise impossible perspectives. To be absolutely clear, this isnât about the games with the smartest âCPU AI.â Weâre not discussing whether the âAIâ in a game... Read more âș
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Android 12âs second developer preview is out just a month after the first, and it includes a bevy of updates. While weâll probably have to wait until a consumer-friendly public beta for the juiciest new bits, weâre already seeing some interesting new additions as Googleâs next OS takes shape. One of the most notable new features is a built-in one-handed mode. Although the first preview of Android 12 included this... Read more âș
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Weâve painted ourselves into another corner with artificial intelligence. Weâre finally starting to breakthrough the usefulness barrier but weâre butting up against the limits of our our ability to responsibly meet our machinesâ massive energy requirements. At the current rate of growth, it appears weâll have to turn Earth into Coruscant if we want to keep spending unfathomable amounts of energy training systems such as GPT-3 . The problem: Simply... Read more âș
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Eminem has an illustrious history of rap battles, but his controversial insults can infuriate socially-conscious listeners. In recent weeks, a TikTok campaign called for Em to be âcanceledâ for glorifying violence against women in his single âLove the Way You Lie.â Inevitably, Marshall Mathers fired back with a diss track taking aim at his critics. But he could surely find some more deserving adversaries than TikTok teens. A new AI... Read more âș
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The hellish world of GJ 1132 b, discovered in 2015, is only 60% more massive than Earth and is roughly the same age as our home planet. Even the atmospheric pressure at the surface is similar to that here on Earth. However, this is where the similarities to our life-giving world come to an end. Unlike our own world, GJ 1132 b, found 41 light-years from Earth, is covered in... Read more âș
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TLDR: The 2021 Ultimate Facebook Ads and Marketing Bundle explains how to score big with Facebook advertising, building awareness, growing customers, and generating sales. If youâre actively trying to market a brand in 2021, itâs increasingly difficult to launch an effective awareness strategy that doesnât involve Facebook as a central plank. Considering the numbers, it isnât hard to understand why. As opposed to the finite reach of print, TV, and... Read more âș
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TLDR: The 2021 Complete Resume Builder Master Class Bundle offers Rezi Resume services, templates and training to help any candidate land the job they deserve. You have seconds. Literally. In many cases, youâve got less than 30 of them. In that handful of seconds, you have to definitively prove youâre the one and only person to fill the available job opening that you so desperately want. But reality is not... Read more âș
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Welcome to SHIFT Basics, a collection of tips, explainers, guides, and advice to keep you up to speed with mobility tech. Compared to gasoline cars, electric vehicles are cheaper to run. The main reason is that, per unit of energy, it costs less to power an EV than a gasoline car. In brutal, inelegant terms, electricity is cheaper than gasoline. How much cheaper though, depends on your energy supplier, where... Read more âș
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Standards is a series explaining various tech protocols, looking at their practical implementation, and where we could find them in devices around us. Fast charging is one of the most useful features in smartphones over the last couple of years. Some companies have developed their own charging standards, and because of that, charging bricks supplied by those manufacturers often become bulky. To solve this problem, accessory makers are using a... Read more âș
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Although esports â competitive, organized video gaming â have exploded into a billion-dollar industry, women players are hard to find on esports teams at Americaâs colleges and universities. In the following Q&A, Lindsey Darvin, an assistant professor of sport management, shines light on the reasons. 1. Why are college esports dominated by men? Women and girls experience many obstacles throughout esports environments â both in terms of participation and employment.... Read more âș
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This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. Closing roads around schools to traffic at pick-up and drop-off times has cut nitrogen dioxide (NOâ) levels by up to 23%, research... Read more âș
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Well, well, well. Isnât this a turn up for the books. Ride-hailing giant Uber is doing as itâs told and will pay its British workers a proper minimum wage, pension, and holiday pay. As the BBC reports, Uber has said that it will pay its 70,000 UK-based drivers the nationâs national minimum living wage of ÂŁ8.72 ($12.14) an hour to over-25s â but with a big juicy caveat. Uber said... Read more âș
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After launching its first smart TVs in 2018, Xiaomi has created a dominant position in the Indian market. Earlier this month, the company said that it has sold more than 3 million units to date. Now, the Chinese tech firm wants to grab more eyeballs by launching TVs under its spun-off Redmi brand. Today, it launched a trio of 4K TVs under the Redmi Smart TV X Series brand in... Read more âș
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Stats from Crunchbase show that more than 1,900 seed and series A investment rounds happened in JuneâAugust 2020, despite it being the peak of the coronavirus. Even a pandemic couldnât discourage entrepreneurs from seeking capital to fund their dreams. I think itâd be fair to say that investors have been more cautious than usual as markets have softened globally as a result of COVID-19. Entrepreneurs should be able to seek... Read more âș
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Samsung announced today that it might not release the Galaxy Note series this year. So the numerous rumors of the popular phone line being shelved were only partially correct. At an annual shareholders meeting in South Korea, Samsungâs co-CEO, DJ Koh, said that to streamline its portfolio, the company is considering skipping the launch of a new Note phone: Note series is positioned as a high-end model in our business... Read more âș
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Everyone is copying TikTok these days, YouTube included. Google first began YouTube Shorts in India back in September, but now it appears the beta is ready to expand to the US. Google seems to have accidentally posted a blog post announcing the expansion earlier today before promptly removing it, (via 9to5Google). The blog post was dated for the 18th, so it appears it was posted early. Thereâs still a chance... Read more âș
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