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Amazon now lets you interact with Alexa via text on iOS

December 4, 2020
Alexa can now respond to commands via text on iOS. Amazon appears to have quietly added the capability  in the last few days, though the company officially confirmed the feature to The Verge. Amazon With the change, users can opt to text commands to Alexa rather than speaking them. According to Amazon, the feature is still a “public preview,” so it could have some bugs and may change…
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Quick Charge Podcast: December 3, 2020

December 4, 2020
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…
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A comparison of a Tesla Model 3 with a heat pump to one without shows impressive results

December 4, 2020
We compare one of the very first Tesla Model 3s without a heat pump to a newer model with one. The latter shows impressive initial results with what appears to be about twice the efficiency when running the heater. With the launch of the Model Y earlier this year, Tesla introduced its own heat pump design. It moved away from the resistive heater, which uses a heating element that converts…
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Google AI ethics co-lead Timnit Gebru says she was fired over an email

December 4, 2020
Timnit Gebru, one of the best-known AI researchers today and co-lead of an AI ethics team at Google, no longer works at the company. She was featured in Google promotional material as recently as May. According to Gebru, she was fired Wednesday for sending an email to “non-management employees that is inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager.” She said Google AI employees who…
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