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VW and Siemens invest $450 million in Electrify America to accelerate EV charging infrastructure

June 28, 2022
Volkswagen and Siemens announced that they raised $450 million for Electrify America to accelerate its deployment of charging infrastructure in the US. If you are “punished” by the US government by being forced to invest in electric vehicle charging infrastructure, you might as well make the best of it, double down, and make it an asset. That’s basically what is happening with Electrify…
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World’s largest direct air carbon capture facility will reduce CO2 by .0001%

June 28, 2022
The world’s largest carbon direct air capture facility has started construction in Iceland, run by Swiss startup Climeworks AG. When construction finishes in 18-24 months, their facility, named “Mammoth,” will be able to remove 36,000 tons of CO2 from the air per year – which is .0001% of the 36 billion tons of CO2 emitted per year by humanity. Climeworks currently operates their…
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Photos of the 4.1-Mile-Long Laser Pride Flag Exhibit in San Francisco

June 28, 2022
For three nights over the weekend of June 24, a 4.1-mile-long laser light installation depicting the Pride flag stretched down Market Street from the Ferry Building in San Francisco. The massive art installation was the brainchild and collaboration of San Francisco-based arts non-profit Illuminate and Nu-Salt Laser International, underwritten by photography bag and accessory company…
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Photographer Uses DALL-E 2 AI to Make a Blurry Photo Sharp

June 28, 2022
DALL-E 2, an artificial intelligence system that can create photo-realistic images based only on a brief description, has been used by a photographer to edit his photos and is able to make an out of focus image sharp. Nicholas Sherlock, sent the images edited with DALL-E 2 to YouTuber Michael Widell, who was rightfully blown away with the technology’s capability and went so far as to ask…
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