The Vermont Public Utility Commission just uncapped Green Mountain Power’s Tesla Powerwall lease program, making it now available to 270,000+ customers.
Green Mountain Power (GMP) is the largest electric utility in Vermont, and it launched its home battery pilot programs in 2015, becoming the first utility in the US to partner with Tesla.
Its Powerwall and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) home…
Realme Buds Air 5 series will go global on August 23
August 19, 2023
The Realme 11 series arrived back in May, and they shared the stage with the Buds Air 5 Pro earphones. Today, we learned the audio wearables will reach their first international market on August 23 – it will be launched in India, alongside the Realme 11 5G and Realme…
Xiaomi first released its Android 14-based MIUI 14 beta back in May and today, the company is seeding a stable version of the software, but still beta, of course. After all, Google hasn’t released an official and stable version of Android 14 to the masses.
Google…
Xiaomi 13T Pro leaked renders reveal familiar design
August 19, 2023
Xiaomi is expected to launch the 13T series soon, and the 13T Pro version appeared in leaked renders. The phone looks a lot like the Redmi K60 Ultra, but the leak suggests the cameras will be more powerful. The smartphone will arrive in Black and Blue with a square camera island, with the first color being under a glass panel while the second being part of a vegan leather…
With the Samsung Galaxy A04 and A04s released in October and September last year, it’s almost time for the Galaxy A05 and A05s to come around. That’s why the duo has been visiting various certification agencies across the globe and the A05s was recently certified…
Android 14 Beta 5.1 lands with last-minute bug fixes
August 19, 2023
Earlier this month, Google pulled a fast one on us pretending it had scheduled a fifth Android 14 beta release all along, when last month it had heavily implied the fourth beta would be the last before the stable release. So we got Android 14 Beta 5.
Today, it’s…
VentureBeat is partnering with Lightning AI on a free, informal gathering for the AI community in New York City this coming Tuesday, August 22: AI ❤️ NY!
Join us for an evening of engaging conversations and networking, illuminating the vibrant and dynamic world of AI development in the City that Never Sleeps.
In attendance from VentureBeat will be editorial director Michael Nuñez, senior…
One of the main barriers to putting large language models (LLMs) to use in practical applications is their unpredictability, lack of reasoning and uninterpretability. Without being able to address these challenges, LLMs will not be trustworthy tools in critical…
What you need to know about Sakana AI, the new startup from a Transformer paper coauthor
August 19, 2023
The landscape of generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) is in a rapid state of evolution these days, not only with OpenAI, Meta, and Google competing directly on foundation models, but doing so while some of their biggest in-house talent leaves to launch their own gen…
Tether to Withdraw Support for USDT on Omni, Kusama, and Bitcoin Cash's SLP – Bitcoin News
August 19, 2023
Tether has announced a strategic transition that will see the company withdraw support for USDT issued on Omni, Kusama, and Bitcoin Cash’s Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP). The company stated that one of the factors that affected this decision was the level of community interest in these projects, declaring that maintaining support for projects without traction was “inefficient and may jeopardize…
