AI & RoboticsNews

Adobe adds AI assistant to Acrobat, Reader in effort to maintain relevance in PDF market

February 21, 2024
Adobe has just rolled out a new AI assistant for Acrobat and Reader products today, bringing conversational AI abilities to help users parse and summarize the trillions of PDF files used by businesses and consumers worldwide. The move shows Adobe aiming to stay atop the PDF market it pioneered decades ago, as new AI systems from startups like OpenAI and Anthropic threaten to provide many of the…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Biden may cave to pressures from automakers and Trump on EV ambitions

February 21, 2024
US President Joe Biden, whose administration has put electric vehicles front and center of an ambitious policy to dramatically curb emissions, may walk back his proposal on yearly EV requirements through 2030 due to political pressures and pushback from automakers and the UAW. Both automakers and United Auto Workers have urged the government to slow down the EV ramp-up, saying the technology is…
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CryptoNews

Coinbase Commerce Ditches Support for Bitcoin Payments Using Self-Custody Wallets

February 21, 2024
Coinbase Commerce, the cryptocurrency payments solution of U.S.-based exchange Coinbase, has removed support for bitcoin payments using self-custody wallets. Brian Armstrong, CEO of the exchange, clarified it maintains support for payments from UTXO-based chains from Coinbase accounts. However, Commerce will focus on supporting ERC-20 tokens on layer 2 protocols, like Base and Polygon. Coinbase…
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GamingNews

Epic Games Store hits 270M PC users, up 17% from 2022

February 20, 2024
Epic Games said the Epic Games Store has hit 270 million PC players in 2023, up 40 million, or 17% from 2022. This community now has a total of 804 million Epic cross-platform accounts. In 2023 Daily Active Users peaked at 36.1 million, and Monthly Active Users reached 75…
Cleantech & EV'sNews

Volvo CE puts electric equipment to work on fossil-free ski resort

February 20, 2024
Electric vehicles don’t work well in the cold? Nobody told Volvo CE – and they’re putting a fleet of battery electric equipment assents to work, collaborating with Sweden’s largest ski resorts to go fully fossil free. Volvo CE has been working on a pilot project with Swedish resort company SkiStar to develop a roadmap towards more sustainable, fossil-free ski resorts. The project is…
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