AI & RoboticsNews

Let this eerily accurate AI dunk on your Spotify habits

December 24, 2020
If you’re a Spotify user, you might have checked out your 2020 listening data with Spotify Wrapped. It’s a straightforward celebration of your year in music and podcasts, a judgement-free overview of what you listened to. The Pudding, however, is distorting that mirror a bit, with a bot that roasts you for the music that got you through 2020. In Spotify’s book (and mine)…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Quick Charge Podcast: December 23, 2020

December 24, 2020
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…
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Nikola (NKLA) kills deal to make electric garbage trucks because it’s too hard?

December 24, 2020
Nikola (NKLA) announced that the company and a partner have canceled a deal to make electric garbage trucks and the reason they gave is basically that it is too hard. Earlier this year, Nikola, which is better known for its electric-hydrogen trucks, and Republic Services, a large US-based waste disposal company, announced that they would work together to “design and build an industry-first…
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MobileNews

How to deactivate or delete your Facebook account or change privacy settings on iPhone

December 24, 2020
Whether you’ve been considering taking a break from Facebook or you’ve decided it’s time to leave the platform for good, follow along for how to deactivate or delete your Facebook account, or dial in your privacy settings. Update 12/23/20: Apple recently launched its iOS app privacy labels and it reveals what and how much apps know about us. As you might guess, the privacy label for…
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MobileNews

OnePlus 9 series will reportedly include a ‘budget’ model powered by Snapdragon 865

December 24, 2020
The OnePlus 9 series is set to debut in March, likely with the company’s first smartwatch, too. This will be the company’s first launch to include three models, and now we’re getting more information on the “budget” OnePlus 9 model. As smartphone prices have skyrocketed over the past several years, more manufacturers in 2020 made a point to offer some stripped-down models. One notable…
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