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Congressman ‘frustrated’ with reduced electric bike tax credit in US, but calls it progress

October 16, 2021
The original sponsor of a bill introducing a 30% tax credit for electric bicycle purchases recently commented on the current state of the proposed legislation, calling it frustrating but expressing hope at the progress it indicated. Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) introduced the E-BIKE Act this past February along with congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR). The act was immediately sent to the…
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Volkswagen Group BEV delivery numbers still a year behind Tesla, but gaining fast at 138% YOY

October 16, 2021
Following the release of its Q3 delivery numbers, Volkswagen Group continues to grow its presence in the BEV market, up 109% compared to Q3 last year. Nine months into 2021, Volkswagen has more than doubled its worldwide deliveries, nipping at the heels of Tesla – the current undisputed EV market leader. Tesla continues to grow as well, and could (maybe) surpass one million deliveries in 2021…
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GamingNews

Steam reportedly blocks cryptocurrency and NFT games

October 16, 2021
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Valve is reportedly blocking cryptocurrency and NFT games on its Steam digital distribution network, according to Age of Rust developer SpacePirate…
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The RetroBeat: Consoles that should be in Nintendo Switch Online’s Expansion Pack

October 16, 2021
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Nintendo announced today that it’s new tier for Nintendo Switch Online is going to costs $50 a year, and I’m still trying to process that. This costs more than twice as much as the original version of NSO, and all so that you can get access to a handful of Genesis and Nintendo…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI Weekly: AI model training costs on the rise, highlighting need for new solutions

October 16, 2021
This week, Microsoft and Nvidia announced that they trained what they claim is one of the largest and most capable AI language models to date: Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation (MT-NLP). MT-NLP contains 530 billion parameters — the parts of the model learned from historical data — and achieves leading accuracy in a broad set of tasks, including reading comprehension and natural…
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