Cleantech & EV'sNews

This powerful electric boat from ex-SpaceX engineers is the latest e-watersports startup

Arc’s founders may have started with rockets, but now they’re getting their feet wet with high-power electric boats. And a new funding commitment from a former Tesla exec means that their high-performance Arc One electric boats may soon be gracing a waterfront near you. Arc is fairly new to the electric boating industry, at just nine months young. But the company has already been motoring…
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Portugal closes its last remaining coal plant

Portugal has shuttered its last remaining coal plant, becoming the fourth country in the European Union to do so, along with Austria, Belgium, and Sweden. The Pego plant in central Portugal was shut down on Friday, 10 days ahead of schedule. It was Portugal’s…
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Polestar confirms Precept concept will be the Polestar 5 and offers a sneak peak of the final design

As part of its ongoing YouTube documentary series tracking the progress of the Precept concept reaching full production, Polestar has confirmed the EV will be called the Polestar 5. The third episode of Precept: from Concept to Car also offers a glimpse at the final design of the Polestar 5, which is slated for production in 2024. Polestar is a premium electric car brand launched in 2017 as an…
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GamingNews

Sarah Ross, ex-Zynga communications VP, passes away

Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.  Sarah Ross, former vice president of global communications of Zynga, passed away on November 20. She was an unsung player behind one of the biggest social impact campaigns in…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Microsoft’s Tutel optimizes AI model training

Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more Microsoft this week announced Tutel, a library to support the development of mixture of experts (MoE) models — a particular type of large-scale AI model. Tutel, which is open source and has been integrated into fairseq, one of Facebook’s toolkits…
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