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Quick Charge Podcast: March 16, 2021

March 17, 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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GamingNews

Activision Blizzard lays off about 50 in its esports division

March 17, 2021
Activision Blizzard has let go of about 50 employees in its esports division, as the Sports Business Journal first reported. The publisher blames the decision on the impact the pandemic has had on live events. Activision Blizzard had invested heavily in on-stage esports…
AI & RoboticsNews

Applied Materials brings AI and big data into semiconductor inspection machines

March 17, 2021
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Applied Materials has launched a new generation of optical semiconductor wafer inspection machines that incorporate big data and AI techniques. These multimillion-dollar machines are used in chip factories that can cost $22 billion to build and generate even more revenue than that. Such factories send…
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AI and big data analytics startup Noogata nets $12M

March 17, 2021
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Noogata, a startup developing products for designing, implementing, and deploying big data analytics models at scale, today announced that it raised $12 million. In addition to…
MobileNews

Hands-on: Sofa is a beautiful iOS app to neatly organize all the media you want to check out

March 17, 2021
One of our modern challenges is keeping track of the things we actually want to spend our time on with the massive amount of digital content that’s available. Sofa is a sharp iOS app that looks to solve that problem with a simple, yet customizable hub to organize movies, TV, music, books, podcasts, apps, games, and more to check out in the future. Along with a new Sofa update landing today, we…
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Toyota teases its first electric SUV

March 17, 2021
Toyota is teasing its first battery-electric SUV ahead of the planned unveiling at the Shanghai Motor Show next month. Toyota is a laggard when it comes to all-electric cars Toyota has yet to launch an all-electric vehicle outside of China. Despite the fact that the…
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EGEB: US solar sets records in 2020, predicted to quadruple by 2030

March 17, 2021
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): US solar will reach a total of 419 GWdc over the next 10 years, according to a new report. Global clean energy investment must increase by 30% to $131 trillion by 2050 to avert the climate crisis, says IRENA. UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to top-rated solar installers in your region for personalized solar estimates. Tesla now…
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