The Biden administration is keen to boost battery manufacturing on home soil as soon as possible. But in case you didn’t notice, the Democrats and Republicans are at loggerheads in Congress on Biden’s huge infrastructure plan. So here are four steps the Department of Energy is going to take right now to boost EV and clean energy storage battery production in the US.
The US Department of…
Android 12 Beta 2: Picture-in-picture windows can no longer be resized by dragging the corners
June 10, 2021
While powerful, picture-in-picture is not implemented in the most user-friendly manner and Android 12 Beta 2 takes a crack at simplifying that experience by getting rid of resizing through corner dragging.
Rather, the fast way to enlarge a PiP window is by double-tapping.
World’s longest AF SLR lens, the Canon EF 1200mm F5.6, comes up for sale at auction in Germany
June 10, 2021
A used unit of Canon’s EF 1200mm F5.6 L USM lens is set to come up for sale at an auction in Germany slated for 6th October. At 0.8m (2′ 7″) and weighing a massive 16.5kg (36lbs), the lens offered the world’s longest focal length for an interchangeable…
A controversial amendment pushed by Jeff Bezos’ space firm Blue Origin passed the Senate Wednesday night, inching closer to becoming law. Crammed inside a mammoth science and technology bill designed primarily to counter competition from China, the amendment would allow NASA to spend up to $10 billion on its embattled Moon lander program. Aside from countering China, it also marks the latest…
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Electronic Arts and its DICE studio today revealed details of Battlefield 2042, a modern online multiplayer shooter game coming October 22 for the PC, PlayStation, and Xbox (both the newer and older…
The pandemic led to ‘significant’ increase in AI adoption across manufacturing, survey finds
June 9, 2021
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New research from Google Cloud and The Harris Poll reveals that the pandemic led to a significant increase in AI use across manufacturers. According to a survey of senior executives at over 1,000…
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Facebook today proposed NetHack as a grand challenge for AI research, for which the company is launching a competition at the NeurIPS 2021 AI conference in Sydney, Australia. It’s Facebook’s assertion that NetHack, an ’80s video game with simple visuals that’s considered among the hardest in the world, can enable…
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Diptera.ai has raised a $3 million seed round to fight mosquitoes with mosquitoes — and AI-based sex sorting.
Jerusalem-based Diptera.ai has figured out a way to use AI to fight the growing threat…
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In a preprint paper published a year ago, scientists at Google Research including Google AI lead Jeff Dean described an AI-based approach to chip design that could learn from past experience and…
How edge AI can make enterprises more agile
June 9, 2021
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The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of edge computing, or computation and data storage that’s located close to where it’s needed. According to the Linux Foundation’s State of the Edge report, digital health care, manufacturing, and retail businesses are particularly likely to expand their use of edge computing…
