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Tesla Vision-powered active safety features found to be at least as good as with radar in new test

June 30, 2021
Tesla’s active safety features powered by its new Tesla Vision computer vision system without radar are proving to be at least as good as with radar in a new independent test. When Tesla announced the transition to its “Tesla Vision” Autopilot without radar, it warned that it would result in limitations of some Autopilot features at first. It didn’t really affect Tesla’s major active…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Quick Charge Podcast: June 29, 2021

June 30, 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…
NewsSpace

Elon Musk counts on 500,000 Starlink users within the next year

June 30, 2021
SpaceX’s satellite internet network, Starlink, should have roughly 500,000 users within the next 12 months, Elon Musk said at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) conference on Tuesday. SpaceX’s current goal, Musk said, is to beam broadband internet to most of the planet by August. The internet network, in the midst of an open beta phase, has launched more than 1,700 satellites to low-Earth orbit…
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MobileNews

Sony may also acquire Demon’s Souls remake studio Bluepoint

June 30, 2021
Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. PlayStation Studios added a new team today. Sony announced this morning that it is acquiring Returnal developer Housemarque. But this is seemingly not the last acquisition that Sony…
GamingNews

BioWare vet Casey Hudson opens Humanoid Studios

June 30, 2021
Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. Casey Hudson announced on Twitter today that he and a team of developers have started Humanoid Studios. Hudson made his name at BioWare, directing RPG hits like Star Wars: Knights…
AI & RoboticsNews

AI safety tools can help mitigate bias in algorithms

June 30, 2021
Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. As AI proliferates, researchers are beginning to call for technologies that might foster trust in AI-powered systems. According to a survey conducted by KPMG, across five countries — the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Canada, and Australia — over a third of the general public says that they’re unwilling…
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MobileNews

Apple releases iOS 14.7 beta 4 to developers, more

June 30, 2021
Apple has released the fourth developer betas of iOS 14.7 and iPadOS 14.7 today. The company is also rolling out watchOS 7.6 developer beta 4, as well as tvOS 14.7 developer beta 4. Head below for the details. Update: Now available to public beta testers as well.
MobileNews

T-Mobile cleverly brings free 30-day Test Drive program to iPhone XS and later via eSIM

June 30, 2021
T-Mobile has offered its free to trial the network for years now and that used to mean giving the Uncarrier a go through a hotspot device. Now T-Mobile is offering a super seamless way for iPhone users to give it a without any strings or actually having to switch carriers thanks to the use of the built-in iPhone eSIM. Spotted by LightReading (via The Verge), T-Mobile opened up the via eSIM.
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