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New startup shows how emotion-detecting AI is intrinsically problematic

Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to ourFuture of Work Summit on-demand libraryto stream. In 2019, a team of researchers published a meta-review of studies claiming a person’s emotion can be inferred from their facial movements. They concluded that there’s no evidence emotional state can be predicted from expression – regardless of whether a human…
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OnePlus officially ends software support for OnePlus 6/6T series

Three years after officially launching with Android Oreo pre-installed, software support for the OnePlus 6 and 6T series has officially ended. For hardware holdouts, the OnePlus 6 and 6T series are highly regarded in the fan community offering much of what made the “Never…
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Some Google Keep users notice issues with numbered lists; Google is working on it

Google Keep is a simple but delightful note-taking app that Google offers across Android, iOS, and the web. However, it seems some recent updates have spurred up an issue with some Google Keep owners who are seeing numbered lists repeat numbers unexpectedly. Noted on Google’s forums by a handful of users over the past two months, this issue duplicates numbers in lists, as pictured below. When…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week: Quad-Motor Four-Legged ‘Spider Bike’

When I set out each week to find the wildest electric vehicles for my regular Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column, they are usually at least classifiable into categories like “bikes”, “cars” and “scooters”. But every now and again, I find something so wacky that it simply defies classification. The latest example of Lamarckian evolution run amok on the most…
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Subaru reveals 1,073 hp STI E-RA electric track car at Tokyo Auto Salon

Subaru took the wraps off the all-electric, 1,073 hp STI E-RA concept car at this weekend’s Tokyo Auto Salon. And, while the STI E-RA might not have much in common with any road-going Subarus, that doesn’t mean the concept won’t hit the road. Subaru says it built the STI E-RA concept to gain “experience and training of new technologies in the world of motorsports in this carbon-neutral…
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