Last week, with the help of Will Ferrell and GM, America threw down the gauntlet to electric vehicle lovers Norway, and vowed to “catch up.” It seems the US has already sorta kinda got the message, except it’s buying the wrong type of vehicle. According to figures from automotive market analyst Tyson Jominy at JD Power, the number of hybrid vehicles sold in the US is growing faster than the... Read more ›
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India’s vernacular language social network ShareChat has partnered with Snap Inc. to spice up its short video app, Moj. ShareChat said that starting today, Moj users will be able to use 30 of Snapchat’s lenses. The company eventually aims to develop 400 lenses through this partnership over time. It is also tying up with some local Snapchat Official Lens Creators (OLCs), such as Hardik Shah of Superfan.ai and Vivek Singh.... Read more ›
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My editor Deb loves to ruin things. One time she used her Ph.D. in Italian to ruin an entire emoji. The emoji in question is a common Italian hand gesture that, roughly translated, means “what the hell?” This isn’t how our team was using it. At some point, we collectively decided to use this emoji to mean “perfection.” From what I can gather, people thought it represented kissing your fingertips,... Read more ›
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Twitter said today that it’s taken action on more than 500 accounts in India, including permanently suspending some of them, based on government order. The social media company said that in the last 10 days, “several separate blocking orders by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).” The company acted on some temporarily and then restored the accounts on the basis of free speech. For context, earlier this month,... Read more ›
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In order to promote short videos created on its own platform, Instagram will stop recommending videos with logos of other apps, including TikTok. As noted by The Verge first, the company published a bunch of new guidelines for creators to get the best results possible on the platform. These tips, posted on Instagram’s creators account, suggested video-makers to use the vertical format, the app’s own sound library, and start a... Read more ›
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In case you didn’t know, Microsoft Word has a dark mode. The problem is, a huge portion of your screen — mainly the big ol’ page you’re writing on — remains white even after you’ve enabled the feature. For reference, this is what ‘dark’ mode currently looks like in Word: You’ve got a big chunk of white staring right at you. But as spotted by Paul Thurrott, Microsoft is currently... Read more ›
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Spotify has been able to show live lyrics during music playback for ages… unless you live in the US (and a few other unlucky regions). But fret no more, Americans with a penchant for impromptu karaoke: the service has begun testing the feature in the US with a limited number of users. A company spokesperson provided the following comment to Engadget when asked about the test: “We can confirm we’re... Read more ›
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This article was originally published by Michael Coates on Clean Fleet Report, a publication that gives its readers the information they need to move to cars and trucks with best fuel economy, including electric cars, fuel cells, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and advanced diesel and gasoline engines. If you’ve ever wondered where it’s easier to own an electric vehicle, a non-profit organization just published a chart that will give you the... Read more ›
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We don’t know if Beverly Hills Police Department (BHPD) Sergeant Billy Fair practices Santeria (or owns a crystal ball), but we know he listens to the Sublime song of the same name. We know this because he’s become a viral sensation on Instagram after blasting the 1990’s hit at a citizen in a misguided attempt to get Instagram’s algorithm to take down a live stream due to copyright infringement. Ironically,... Read more ›
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An algorithm developed at the UT Southwestern medical center has estimated that there are almost three times as many COVID-19 infections in the US than the number of confirmed cases. The model makes daily predictions of both total and current infections across the US and in the 50 countries worst affected by the virus. It calculated that more than 71 million people in the US had contracted COVID-19 by February... Read more ›
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Slitherine and Black Lab Games today unveiled yet another Warhammer strategy game set to launch in 2021. Fresh on the heels of Sega’s announcement for Total Warhammer III, “Warhammer 40,000 Battlesector,” as it’s called, looks to make this one of the best gaming years ever for the venerable Games Workshop IP’s fans. One of the most popular tabletop wargaming franchises of all time continues to thrive in the digital format... Read more ›
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A recent survey commissioned by IBM and conducted by O’Reilly highlights the need for open source skills in the competitive field of hybrid cloud development. Up front: Enterprise-scale IT solutions for hybrid cloud implementation more often than not rely on an open-source backbone these days. Unfortunately, an overwhelming majority of hiring managers report difficulties in finding talent with complementary open-source skills. This is good news for those seeking to enter... Read more ›
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Microsoft has unveiled an AI system called Speller100 that corrects spelling in over 100 languages used in search queries on Bing. “We believe Speller100 is the most comprehensive spelling correction system ever made in terms of language coverage and accuracy,” the company said in a blog post. Bing previously provided high-quality spelling corrections for around two dozen languages. However, it didn’t have enough training data to work well on languages... Read more ›
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TLDR: With an Icons8 Photo Plan, you can fully edit and customize more than 100,000 professionally-photographed stock images for all your image use needs royalty-free. Few sites do have the time or resources to create the perfect image from scratch for every story. And that same crunch goes for companies making promotional materials, people assembling social media posts, designers trying to craft packaging art, or even you just trying to... Read more ›
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We’re big fans of GoCycle’s folding ebikes here at SHIFT. We appreciate their unique approach to design, simple folding mechanisms, and highly tuneable motors. Naturally, we’re excited to hear that a new version is on the way! It’s called the G4, but rather than replacing the G3, GoCycle says the G4 and G4i will come in to replace the fast-folding GX and premium folder the GXi. You can read SHIFT’s... Read more ›
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Just 40 light-years from Earth, the TRAPPIST-1 system of planets is home to the largest family of Earth-like worlds known to astronomers. At least seven planets are known to orbit within the TRAPPIST-1 solar system. A new study shows these worlds have nearly identical densities — within just a few percent of each other. This suggests that each of these seven planets could have similar compositions. “This is one of... Read more ›
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Scientists from the University of Copenhagen have developed an AI tool that can predict who’ll die from COVID-19 with up to 90% accuracy. The researchers fed the system health data from almost 4,000 COVID-19 patients in Denmark to train it to find patterns in their medical histories. The tool determined whether an uninfected person who later catches the virus will die from the disease with up to 90% certainty. [Read:... Read more ›
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Google released the first developer preview of Android 11 in February 2020. So, we might not be far off from seeing the first glimpse of Android 12. While there’s no official announcement from the company, folks from XDA Developers have published a bunch of screenshots that suggest upcoming changes to Google’s new Android version. There are a lot of new things to notice such as redesigned widgets, but Android 12’s... Read more ›
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As the CEO of an SME business, 2020 wasn’t exactly smooth sailing. The pandemic left us feeling like we’d had the light switched off and were spun around until we were dizzy. It wasn’t easy, but it looks like we survived. We weren’t the only ones, and most of our peers obviously felt the same trauma. As a B2B business, everybody found themselves in the same boat rocking back and... Read more ›
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What comes into your mind when you hear the word: Lamborghini? Bright yellow cars? Raucous V12 engines? Italian flare? Perhaps that scene from The Wolf of Wall Stree, when DiCaprio attempts to drive a white Countach whilst high as a kite? Maybe it’s all those things and more, but one thing won’t be on your mind: electric power. In 2019 Lamborghini showed off a little glimpse into its future with... Read more ›
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