The winner of the 2021 US James Dyson Award is 21-year-old Gabe Tavas. His mission is focused: Make wood without cutting down trees. So he invented Pyrus: a petroleum-free, wood-like material that’s sustainably produced with repurposed bacterial cellulose waste from kombucha.
The James Dyson Award runs in 28 countries and regions worldwide. Entrants must be, or have been within the last four…
Some power companies admitted that they are taking Tesla Energy, the automaker’s energy division, seriously.
They appear to be nervous about Tesla’s Autobidder software.
Over the last few years, Tesla has started to offer new ‘Energy Plans’ to offer low…
World’s first autonomous, 7MWh electric cargo ship to make voyage with zero crew onboard
August 26, 2021
A Norwegian company called Yara International claims to have created the world’s first zero-emission ship that can also transport cargo autonomously. The Yara Birkeland electric cargo ship was first conceptualized in 2017 but now looks to make its first voyage with no crew…
Call of Duty: Vanguard reveals a sniper’s survival skills at Gamescom’s opening night
August 26, 2021
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Sledgehammer Games showed off a new single-player campaign level for Call of Duty: Vanguard that featured Polina Petrova, a Russian sniper.
The game is the next installment of the Call of Duty series that has sold more than 400 million copies to date. It will take players back to World War II and weave a global…
Cult of the Lamb is an adorable, satanic action-RPG
August 26, 2021
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Devolver Digital revealed Cult of the Lamb during today’s Gamescom Opening Night event.
Cult of the Lamb has action RPG and town-building elements. You play as an adorably lamb … who is…
Danish shipping giant Maersk has ordered eight new vessels that can run both on traditional bunker fuel and carbon-neutral methanol. The ships will be able to sail between China and Europe and across the Pacific.
Maersk’s carbon-neutral potential
Hyundai Heavy Industries…
Park Beyond is Bandai Namco’s trip into theme park sims
August 26, 2021
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Someone at Bandai Namco must have missed going to theme parks during the pandemic. That’s my theory about Park Beyond, the publisher’s first amusement park management sim. It’s from Limbic Entertainment, and it’s coming to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S in 2022. Bandai Namco made the announcement…
Porsche launches 2022 Taycan electric car with faster charging, Android Auto, and pretty pink color
August 26, 2021
Porsche is launching the new 2022 Taycan electric car, and it includes several improvements, including faster charging, Android Auto, and most importantly – a new pretty pink paint color.
The 2022 Taycan and Taycan Cross Turismo are coming to US dealerships later this…
A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.
California’s agency investigating Activision Blizzard for sex discrimination has accused the big game publisher of shredding human resources records.
Axios reported this week that the new…
How Hugging Face is tackling bias in NLP
August 26, 2021
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Given that natural language processing (NLP) is a subset of artificial intelligence (AI), models need to train on large volumes of data. Unfortunately, many researchers are unable to access or develop the models and datasets necessary for robust systems — they are mostly the…
