Cleantech & EV'sNews

Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week: $450 four-seater AWD electric go-kart

April 23, 2022
Like many of the quirky electric vehicles I find for the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week series, this fun-looking electric go-kart is a bit oddly proportioned. But that wouldn’t stop me from terrorizing the local neighborhood in it, all-wheel-driving my way to my rightful position as the kind of the cul-de-sac! Yep, that’s right – you read that correctly. This wacky…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

The Mediterranean’s first offshore wind farm, off Italy, is now up and running [update]

April 23, 2022
All 10 offshore wind turbines have now been installed by Dutch maritime company Van Oord off Italy’s Puglia coast – the heel of Italy’s boot. It’s Italy’s first offshore wind farm, and the first in the Mediterranean Sea. April 22 update: Italy’s first offshore wind farm is now officially online. The Taranto offshore wind farm’s developer, Renexia, and its partners yesterday held a…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Conversational AI tools should unify calling, messaging, analytics and more

April 23, 2022
We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 – 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! LivePerson, which makes the bots we encounter every day act a lot more like humans and less like soulless droids, has done some research in this area and come up with confirmation of a universal truth…
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MobileNews

Google’s new speech recognition tech boosts voice UIs, already in use by Spotify’s Car Thing

April 23, 2022
Since 2017, Google Cloud has offered a Speech-to-Text (STT) API that third-parties can take advantage of in their own services. The newest models for Google speech recognition improve accuracy due to a “major” technology improvement, and are particularly suited for creating voice UIs. The new neural sequence-to-sequence model for Google’s Speech-to-Text API improves accuracy in 23…
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