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Quick Charge Podcast: May 14, 2022

May 15, 2022
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 Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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Tesla tries to help Texas electric grid amid heatwave with in-car alert

May 14, 2022
Tesla is trying to help the grid in its new home state of Texas as rising temperatures is resulting in new record electricity demand in the state. The automaker is pushing a new in-car alert to encourage off-peak charging. Texas has a notoriously fragile grid that is having issues supporting increasing peak electricity demand. The issues have mostly come in the winter amid cold fronts, but the…
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MobileNews

This week’s top stories: Google I/O highlights, Pixel hardware roadmap, more

May 14, 2022
In this week’s top stories: highlights from the Google I/O conference include a roadmap for the Pixel series, showcasing Pixel 7, Pixel Watch, and much more. Google stunned Pixel fans everywhere with its annual developer conference, Google I/O, by announcing an absolute flurry of Pixel hardware. The most immediately relevant launch is that of the $449 Pixel 6a, set to arrive on July 28…
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AI & RoboticsNews

To optimize data curation for AI, Lightly turns to self-supervised learning

May 14, 2022
All machine learning models are bound by a critical factor: The quality of the data on which the model is trained. The challenge of data curation to improve the quality of machine learning and AI models is one that is well-understood. A 2021 MIT research study found systemic issues in how training data was labeled, leading to inaccurate outcomes in AI systems. A study in the journal Quantitative…
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