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Quick Charge Podcast: May 15, 2021

May 16, 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 Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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Google Maps adds ‘Search COVID-19 vaccines’ encouragement

May 16, 2021
Over the past year, Google has leveraged its large platforms to display useful, pandemic-related information. The latest is a simple encouragement in Google Maps about finding COVID-19 vaccines near you.  In Google Maps for Android, the pill-shaped field at the top of the…
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Canon Might Be Planning Super Cheap Super Telephoto Lenses

May 15, 2021
A newly published patent suggests that Canon might be trying to bring a catadioptric optical system back to its camera lens lineup. If the “mirror lens” designs do materialize, we would likely see super telephoto lenses that are much smaller and cheaper than equivalent Canon lenses currently on the market. Northlight Images spotted a Canon patent (US Patent 20210141240) titled “Optical…
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Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week: Your own electric submarine

May 15, 2021
Every week I put on my journalistic scuba gear and dive to the bottom of the abandoned strip-mine-turned-reservoir that is the Alibaba electric vehicle catalogue in order to find the most audacious EVs available. Most of the time I’m so enthralled by the craziness of what I find that I have to resist the urge to pull out my credit card. This time I can safely say that I will absolutely not be…
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When AI meets BI: 5 red flags to watch for

May 15, 2021
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. If there is a Holy Grail to business success in 2021, it most certainly has something to do with the power of data. And if business intelligence wasn’t already the answer to C-suite prayers for…
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AI Weekly: How to implement AI responsibly

May 15, 2021
Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Implementing AI responsibly implies adopting AI in a manner that’s ethical, transparent, and accountable as well as consistent with laws, regulations, norms, customer expectations, and organizational values. “Responsible AI” promises to guard against the use of biased data or algorithms, providing an assurance that…
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