Mini will stop selling gas cars by 2030, according to a report by Der Spiegel. The brand also plans to introduce its last gas model in 2025 and for half its sales to be electric by 2027.
The official roadmap will be presented next week, according to Spiegel’s report. The plan would make Mini the first brand in BMW Group to go all-electric.
Car model lines usually last around 7 years before…
How to scale AI with a high degree of customization
March 14, 2021
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In a previous post, I outlined four challenges to scaling AI: customization, data, talent, and trust. In this post, I’m going to dig deeper into that first challenge of…
LONDON — Britain’s armored fighting vehicle capabilities have been labelled as “deplorable” in a report released by the parliamentary Defence Committee on March 14.
Actually, “deplorable” was one of the kinder terms used by the committee to describe the…
Quick Charge Podcast: March 13, 2021
March 14, 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…
Adobe just dropped its latest software updates via the Creative Cloud and among those updates is a new feature in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) called “Super Resolution.” You can mark this day down as a major shift in the photo industry.
I have seen a bit of reporting out there…
Germany has a long history of producing some of the best cameras and lenses ever to appear in the history of photography, but German brand names can be a bit tricky to pronounce. In this 8.5-minute video, photographer Maximilian Heinrich of Analog Insights shares the native…
Apple promotes iPhone 12 durability in new ad [Video]
March 13, 2021
Apple has launched a new ad promoting the iPhone 12 durability. It’s not the first time the company has emphasized this, as in its iPhone keynote last year, it said that this model has four times better drop performance.
In the ad named Cook, a clumsy cooker tries to learn a recipe while reading the steps on his iPhone 12. The result is that he spills lots of sauce on the iPhone, fills it with…
Pi Day — March 14th — in 2021 is this Sunday and Google is celebrating with an easter egg when you open Search’s built-in calculator. It tests how well you know the mathematical constant.
Searching for “pi” or “pi day” will bring up the Google Search…
This week’s top stories: ‘AAWireless’ dongle, Google Fit camera heart rate, Pixel 6 hole punch, more
March 13, 2021
In this week’s top stories: AAWireless dongle for wireless Android Auto begins shipping, Google Fit launches its camera-based heart and respiratory readings, Pixel 6 poised to move its hole punch camera, and more.
The biggest news this week is that the long-awaited…
Awesomely Weird Alibaba EV of the Week: An $1,850 electric motorcycle with only one wheel
March 13, 2021
If your biggest problem with motorcycles is that they are just too darn safe, then I’ve got just the product for you! This week’s entry in the Awesomely Weird Alibaba EV of the Week series is the strangest one-wheeled self-balancing electric motorcycle you’ve ever seen. And also probably the only one you’ve ever seen.
If you thought things couldn’t get weirder around here, then you…
