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Aviation Week Awards NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter With Laureate
The prestigious honor recognizes the pioneering rotorcraft for its history-making flights on the Red Planet.
The “little helicopter that could” has garnered attention, fans, and numerous accolades, with the latest coming from Aviation Week Network in the form of a 2021 Laureate…
Ford delays Mach E orders by 6 weeks due to chip shortage, gives 250kWh free charging
August 11, 2021
Ford has sent out an email to future Mach-E owners warning of a six-week delay in delivery times for orders produced or scheduled between July 5 and October 1. To compensate affected customers, Ford will provide an additional 250kWh (about 700 miles) worth of complimentary…
Quick Charge Podcast: August 10, 2021
August 11, 2021
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…
First look at Tesla’s new vision-based Autopark feature
August 11, 2021
Tesla has started updating its Autopark feature with its new Tesla Vision computer vision system, which now powers Autopilot and its Full Self-Driving Beta.
Like many other premium (and even non-premium) vehicles, Tesla vehicles have been equipped with an autonomous parking feature called ‘Autopark’.
Tesla’s Autopark has been relying on ultrasonic sensors around the vehicles.
It limited…
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Ørsted says Block Island is offline for summer maintenance, and rumors are flying.
Tampa just committed to 100% clean energy by 2035, but there’s a hitch.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar…
San Diego-based Juiced Bikes is announcing today the launch of a new electric bicycle version, the Cross Current X Step-Through.
The original Cross Current X with a step-over frame has been Juiced’s premier electric commuter and urban riding e-bike for years.
Now the…
Tesla has apologized to Model S buyers who are experiencing significant delays without communication.
However, they are short on explanation, and there are some worrying things going on.
Last week, we reported on Tesla buyers asking the automaker for better communications over Model S deliveries, which have been quite messy.
Many buyers who placed orders for the new Model S early in the year are…
Audi’s new Skysphere concept is two cars in one
August 11, 2021
Audi invited us out to LA for a first look at their new Skysphere concept, which they will be showing at Pebble Beach this week. The car, while only a concept so far, gives us a glimpse into the future of Audi design and engineering, and we’re seriously here for it.
When…
Picking the best Wii games, the next Xenoblade, and more | Last of the Nintendogs 006
August 11, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now.
On this episode of Last of the Nintendogs, voice actors give us some clues about the next Xenoblade and the Super Mario Bros. movie. We talk about our favorite Wii games (and try to bring up…
Audit finds gender and age bias in OpenAI’s CLIP model
August 11, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now.
In January, OpenAI released Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), an AI model trained to recognize a range of visual concepts in images and associate them with their names. CLIP performs quite well on classification tasks — for instance, it can caption an image of a dog “a photo of a dog.” But according…
