UK startup Watt Electric Vehicle Company (WEVC) has announced an interesting new partnership today as it looks to reach production of its flagship commercial van, the eCV1. Together with the help of leading Norwegian industrial company Hydro, WEVC hopes to deliver an electric van built from recycled aluminum that can last decades and potentially enable closed-loop production.
Watt Electric…
The Game Awards launches Fortnite island giving players the vote
November 15, 2023
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Shortly after revealing the nominees of its 2023 event, The Game Awards has launched its own island in Fortnite that allows users to…
Nvidia and Intel unveil advanced HPC initiatives, bolstering AI capabilities at SC2023
November 15, 2023
The world’s fastest supercomputers are getting faster with both Nvidia and Intel racing to accelerate the most powerful computing systems on Earth, with a big emphasis on AI power.
At the Supercomputing 2023 (SC23) conference in Denver today, the list of the world’s…
Dapper Labs Partners With Disney to Launch NFT Pin-Collecting Platform – Bitcoin News
November 15, 2023
Dapper Labs, known for its non-fungible token (NFT) collection NBA Top Shot, has unveiled Disney Pinnacle, its latest endeavor. This new platform is set to transform the traditional pin-collecting hobby into a digital experience, featuring characters from Disney’s long-standing history, Pixar, and the Star Wars universe. Dapper Labs announced the opening of the waitlist for Disney Pinnacle…
Quick Charge Podcast: November 14, 2023
November 15, 2023
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
Kia offers $599/mo lease deal on the new 2024 EV9 electric SUV with over 300 miles range
November 15, 2023
The first three-row Kia electric SUV is expected to hit dealerships in the next month or so. The all-new Kia EV9 already has its first lease deal, and it may be better than you expected.
Kia introduces 2024 EV9 lease deals
Kia’s new 2024 EV9 electric SUV can be leased…
These two companies are electrifying asphalt paving in the US
November 15, 2023
Asphalt paving equipment maker LeeBoy and battery storage maker Portable Electric are working together to electrify the asphalt paving industry.
Electrifying asphalt paving
Earlier this year, North Carolina-based LeeBoy debuted the prototype of its 8520C E-Paver. It’s a commercial-class electric asphalt paver that has a 150kW GM electric drive system, but everything else – e.g., the screed…
NISAR, the trailblazing Earth-observing radar satellite being developed by the United States and Indian space agencies, passed a major milestone on Nov. 13, emerging from a 21-day test aimed at evaluating its ability to function in the extreme temperatures and the vacuum of…
What Meta learned from Galactica, the doomed model launched two weeks before ChatGPT
November 15, 2023
One year ago — and two weeks before OpenAI released ChatGPT — Meta released a research demo called Galactica. An open source “large language model for science” that was trained on data including 48 million scientific papers, Meta touted Galactica’s ability to…
Tangram Vision, a startup building software and hardware for robotic perception, unveiled a new 3D depth sensor today called HiFi that packs powerful computer vision capabilities into an off-the-shelf product priced at $549.
The sensor aims to “make it dead simple to add AI-enhanced 3D data to robots,” Adam Rodnitzky, cofounder and COO of Tangram Vision, told VentureBeat.
HiFi combines…
