DefenseNews

Defense department reform office shuts down

January 7, 2021
WASHINGTON — With Congress overriding President Donald Trump’s veto of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, the Pentagon’s chief management officer job has officially been eliminated. While the NDAA language calls for the roles and responsibilities of the office to be divested to other parts of the defense department over the next year, the CMO role itself was eliminated…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Quick Charge Podcast: January 6, 2021

January 7, 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…
MobileNews

YouTube Music subtly tweaks dark theme on web and Android apps

January 7, 2021
The general layout of YouTube Music has remained largely the same since its 2018 relaunch, but a small change online and on Android sees Google tweak the background theme. Unlike other Google apps, YouTube Music started off with a dark theme and doesn’t have a light…
AI & RoboticsNews

AI models from Microsoft and Google already surpass human performance on the SuperGLUE language benchmark

January 7, 2021
In late 2019, researchers affiliated with Facebook, New York University (NYU), the University of Washington, and DeepMind proposed SuperGLUE, a new benchmark for AI designed to summarize research progress on a diverse set of language tasks. Building on the GLUE benchmark, which had been introduced one year prior, SuperGLUE includes a set of more difficult language understanding challenges…
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MobileNews

Here’s how to subscribe to Peacock and watch ‘The Office’ on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV

January 7, 2021
One of the latest major streaming services is NBC’s Peacock and with the start of 2021, The Office has left Netflix is officially only streaming on NBC’s new service. Read along with our full guide on how to watch Peacock free on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and the web, what’s available on the service, what you get with the paid plans, how to watch The Office, and more. How to watch The…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Nox packages two electric bicycles with a single shared motor and battery

January 7, 2021
Buy one; get one deals aren’t the norm in the e-bike industry. But Nox’s new package that offers one and a half e-bikes might be on its way to changing that. The German-based Nox Cycles is no stranger to electric bikes, already offering electric mountain bikes for the better part of a decade. Now the company is trying to entice its riders into hitting both the mountain slopes and the tarmac…
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