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Ford delays Mach E orders by 6 weeks due to chip shortage, gives 250kWh free charging

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 charging to affected owners. Ford blames the delay on the global semiconductor shortages that are plaguing much of the…
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Quick Charge Podcast: August 10, 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…
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EGEB: The US’s first offshore wind farm is currently offline; here’s why

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 installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for…
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Audi’s new Skysphere concept is two cars in one

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 we first heard about the Skysphere, Audi sounded a little cagey. They told us it was a sports car, but they also told us it…
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Audit finds gender and age bias in OpenAI’s CLIP model

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…
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SportsBettingDime and OpenAI put AI to the assistant coach test

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. That motivational speech a coach or business executive gives you might one day soon be generated by an AI assistant alongside other bits of timely advice and insight. SportsBettingDime, in collaboration with research lab OpenAI, has been experimenting with AI in the form of a GPT-3 text editor to emulate a coach that…
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