AI & RoboticsNews

The AI arms race has us on the road to Armageddon

April 20, 2021
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. It’s now a given that countries worldwide are battling for AI supremacy. To date, most of the public discussion surrounding this competition has focused on commercial gains flowing from the technology. But the AI arms race for military applications is racing ahead as well, and concerned scientists, academics, and AI…
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Google Search adds immersive easter egg to celebrate Ingenuity flight on Mars

April 20, 2021
Google celebrated the landing of Perseverance in February with virtual fireworks, and today has a more elaborate Search easter egg for Ingenuity becoming the “first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet.” Like other Google Search easter eggs, searching for “Ingenuity” will reveal an animated model of the Mars Helicopter in the Knowledge Panel. Tapping…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Mercedes-Benz unveils EQB: a beautiful new compact electric SUV

April 20, 2021
Mercedes-Benz has today unveiled the EQB: a beautiful new compact electric SUV, and another addition to the fast-electrifying segment of the auto industry. The compact SUV segment is adding electric options at an incredible pace. At the lower end of the market, you have the Kia Niro EV, Hyundai Kona EV, and VW ID.4. The higher end of the segment is also quickly being electrified with the Tesla…
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MobileNews

Microsoft Edge, Apple’s Safari, and Firefox have no plans to adopt Google’s FLoC initiative

April 20, 2021
After Google started rolling out FLoC to some Chrome users as a replacement for third-party cookies, the technology has become rather controversial. Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, and Mozilla Firefox have confirmed they don’t have immediate plans to adopt FLoC. Google is positioning FLoC, or Federated Learning of Cohorts, as a new standard for the web. That’s an idea that privacy-focused…
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