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Shell buys Ubitricity, UK’s largest EV charging network

January 26, 2021
Royal Dutch Shell said today that it is acquiring 100% of Ubitricity, the UK’s largest public electric vehicle charging network. The amount of the acquisition is undisclosed, and the deal is expected to close later in 2021. But Shell’s true road map to net zero by 2050 won’t become more clear until next month’s strategy update. Ubitricity, founded in Germany, is a leading provider of…
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Clubhouse plans to start working on its Android app ‘soon’

January 26, 2021
If you haven’t heard of Clubhouse, it’s the latest social media fad taking the world — really, mostly just Silicon Valley — by storm. It’s a really cool experiment in live conversations that brings the best of podcasts and social networks like Twitter together…
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Tesla loses man who produced some of the ‘best engineering’ Elon Musk has seen

January 26, 2021
Tesla lost engineering director Joseph Mardall, who has helped produced “some of the best engineering” Elon Musk has seen in a long time. Tesla Model Y heat pump With Model Y last year, Tesla introduced several new design improvements, and its new heat pump is one of the main ones. A heat pump is a device that transfers heat energy from a source of heat to what is called a thermal…
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Leica ad reminds us of the importance of photography in documenting history

January 26, 2021
Leica invented the first 35mm camera in 1914. Recently, they created a minute-long video ad to celebrate ‘witnesses’ – photographers using their cameras for over a century to capture worldwide events, both large and small. Narrated by Joel Meyerowitz, to the music of Niccolò Pacella, it features images from 28 photographers. Love, hate, beauty, craziness, lonliness, fear…
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AI & RoboticsNews

JetPlay’s Ludo AI platform accelerates game concept creation

January 25, 2021
JetPlay has launched Ludo, a game creation platform that uses artificial intelligence to accelerate the creative process. The Seattle-based JetPlay has launched the open beta of Ludo, following a successful closed beta with participation from independent studios around the world. It will be a big test about whether automation can be useful in the domain of creativity, where humans have dominated…
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