Earlier this month, Google discontinued its three-year old premium Assistant smart speaker after announcing a smaller alternative in September. The Google Home Max is now surprisingly in stock on the US Google Store.
As of this evening, the Google Home Max is once again available in both Chalk and Charcoal for $179, though orders will not arrive until mid-January. The $120 discount is available…
Researchers release Melinda dataset to train AI systems for analyzing study methods
December 23, 2020
Curating biological studies is an important yet labor-intensive process performed by researchers in life sciences fields. Among other tasks, curators must recognizing experiment methods, identifying the underlying protocols that net the figures published in research…
Kenshoo, a provider of a platform for managing marketing campaigns, yesterday announced its intent to acquire Signals Analytics, which provides a service for collecting unstructured consumer data that allows marketers to model campaigns using AI technologies. Signals…
An AI is livestreaming a never-ending bass solo on YouTube
December 23, 2020
Even the most dedicated musicians have to put down their instruments sometimes, but on YouTube, you can listen to a bass solo that keeps going and going. Dadabots, which is also behind an endless death metal stream, used a recurrent neural network (RNN) to create a YouTube stream featuring an infinite bass solo.
The Dadabots team, CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski, trained the RNN with two hours of bass…
These were the top 5 biggest electric bicycle news stories of 2020
December 23, 2020
As 2020 draws to a close, those of us in the electric bicycle industry look back at the year with mixed emotions. While 2020 brought suffering and economic hardship upon the world in a way many of us had never seen, it also shook up the outdated status quo for urban…
Google adding four Stadia Pro games for January 2021, including Ary and the Secret of Seasons & F1
December 23, 2020
Following nine titles to close out the year, Google is ringing in January 2021 with four games joining Stadia Pro next Friday: Ary and the Secret of Seasons, Figment, F1 2020, and Hotline Miami.
Google is down to four Pro games after a busy end of 2020 holiday push.
Tesla’s direct-sale loophole in Michigan is safe for now
December 23, 2020
The bill to close Tesla’s direct-sale loophole in Michigan didn’t receive a vote in the state’s Senate before the end of the 2020 session.
That keeps the loophole safe for Tesla and other new electric automakers who plan to use it for now.
Michigan has been a battleground for Tesla when it comes to the right to sell and service its vehicles.
There are several states where Tesla has been…
Google Photos-powered parody of ‘Photograph’ by Nickelback is a video that now exists
December 23, 2020
The end of the year is a time for reminiscing, and Google is doing that in a substantial manner following a team up with Nickelback to release a Photos-themed parody of Photograph.
A parody of 2005’s Photograph from Canadian band Nickelback was uploaded to the…
It appears Tesla’s first Hawaiian Supercharger will be on Larry Ellison’s 3,400-person island
December 23, 2020
Lanai Island, a former pineapple plantation that was almost entirely (98%) purchased by Oracle founder and Tesla board member Larry Ellison for $300 million in 2012, is the first in Hawaii to see a Supercharger permit filed by Tesla.
The permit, filed in the county named…
Vmoto Super Soco is teasing an upcoming unveiling of the company’s latest electric two-wheeler. And while the clues are tantalizingly few, the direction points toward a larger format electric motorcycle than Super Soco has ever produced before.
Super Soco already offers three electric motorcycles as well as several seated electric scooters.
The Super Soco TS and TC are both naked electric…
