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The UK prime minister’s climate spokesperson has range anxiety, so she drives a diesel VW

August 4, 2021
Allegra Stratton, British prime minister Boris Johnson’s climate spokesperson, says she won’t switch to an electric car yet because she has range anxiety. So she drives a “third-hand” diesel Volkswagen Golf instead. The UK climate spokesperson’s range anxiety… The Guardian details Stratton’s phobia of electric cars: The reason for this, Stratton explained in an interview with…
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Tesla opening Supercharger network will enable access to new $7.5 billion EV funding in US

August 4, 2021
Tesla’s recent move to open its Supercharger network to other automakers will enable the automaker to get access to some of the $7.5 billion in EV charging infrastructure funding as part of the new US infrastructure bill. For years now, Tesla has been talking about opening up the Supercharger network to electric vehicles from other manufacturers. Last month, CEO Elon Musk finally confirmed…
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GamingNews

Activision Blizzard’s Q2 2021 bookings drop 7% to $1.92B

August 4, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Activision Blizzard reported earnings today that beat Wall Street’s and its own expectations with 19% revenue growth to $2.29 billion for the second quarter ended June 30. The earnings come the…
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Activision Blizzard creates new mobile studio for Call of Duty

August 4, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Activision Blizzard has created a new mobile game studio for the Call of Duty franchise. The studio is working on an unannounced title for the Call of Duty franchise. Daniel Alegre, the president and chief operating officer at the company, made the announcement in today’s earnings call with analysts. This new studio…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Is DeepMind’s new reinforcement learning system a step toward general AI?

August 4, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. One of the key challenges of deep reinforcement learning models — the kind of AI systems that have mastered Go, StarCraft 2, and other games — is their inability to generalize…
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