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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 Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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Juiced Bikes launches new electric bike with heavily reduced pricing

August 11, 2021
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 company is releasing a new step-through version of the bike and significantly lowering the price. While the original Cross…
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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…
GamingNews

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 more than just Super Mario Galaxy and its sequel), and Nintendo provides some updated Switch sales numbers. Come hunt with the…
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AI & RoboticsNews

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…
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Sex Offender Sentenced for Stealing over $250,000 in Merchandise from Navy Exchange on Guam

August 11, 2021
The Navy Exchange on Guam is seen on July 8, 2020. (Kristine Sturkie/U.S. Navy) A former Guam Navy Exchange employee convicted of stealing over $250,000 worth of electronics was given two years in federal prison by a district court judge last week. Jesse Cruz Camacho, 57, of Harmon, Guam, pleaded guilty on April 6 to 16 counts of theft of government property, the Pacific Daily News reported at…
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