AI & RoboticsNews

AI Weekly: NeurIPS 2020 and the hope for change

December 12, 2020
On Monday morning, organizers of NeurIPS, the largest annual gathering of AI researchers in the world, gave Best Paper awards to the authors of three pieces of research, including one detailing OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model. The week also started with AI researchers refusing to review Google AI papers until grievances were resolved after firing Ethical AI team co-lead Timnit Gebru. Googlers…
Read more
MobileNews

iPhone users continue to report missing Messages app notifications after updating to iOS 14

December 12, 2020
A bug resulting in missing text message notifications is continuing to affect iPhone users with iOS 14. While the issue appeared to at first to be exclusive to the iPhone 12 series, it appears to be affecting nearly any iPhone model running iOS 14 — and the early signs are that iOS 14.3 doesn’t fix the problem either. Missing iOS 14 messages notifications The problem was reported by…
Read more
Cleantech & EV'sNews

VW unveils new 22 kW bi-directional DC charging station for electric vehicles

December 12, 2020
VW has unveiled a new 22 kW bi-directional DC charging station for electric vehicles that sort of closes the gap between level 2 charging and level 3 DC fast-charging. Typically, we refer to charging electric vehicles with 3 different levels. Level 1 or trickle charging consists of plugging into a 120-volt regular wall outlet, which provides very limited charging that can literally take days to…
Read more
Cleantech & EV'sNews

These US-built electric mopeds are expanding to Europe, adding electric motorcycles

December 12, 2020
North Carolina-based Huck Cycles may be less than a year old, but the electric moped company is moving fast! I first stumbled upon the company in April of this year. There was almost no information available, so I called up founder Brett McCoy to figure out what was going on with this obscure little e-moped startup. As it turned out, Huck Cycles was flying under the radar for a reason. The new…
Read more