Cleantech & EV'sNews

Volkswagen Group BEV delivery numbers still a year behind Tesla, but gaining fast at 138% YOY

Following the release of its Q3 delivery numbers, Volkswagen Group continues to grow its presence in the BEV market, up 109% compared to Q3 last year. Nine months into 2021, Volkswagen has more than doubled its worldwide deliveries, nipping at the heels of Tesla – the current undisputed EV market leader. Tesla continues to grow as well, and could (maybe) surpass one million deliveries in 2021…
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GamingNews

Steam reportedly blocks cryptocurrency and NFT games

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Valve is reportedly blocking cryptocurrency and NFT games on its Steam digital distribution network, according to Age of Rust developer SpacePirate…
GamingNews

The RetroBeat: Consoles that should be in Nintendo Switch Online’s Expansion Pack

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Nintendo announced today that it’s new tier for Nintendo Switch Online is going to costs $50 a year, and I’m still trying to process that. This costs more than twice as much as the original version of NSO, and all so that you can get access to a handful of Genesis and Nintendo…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI Weekly: AI model training costs on the rise, highlighting need for new solutions

This week, Microsoft and Nvidia announced that they trained what they claim is one of the largest and most capable AI language models to date: Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation (MT-NLP). MT-NLP contains 530 billion parameters — the parts of the model learned from historical data — and achieves leading accuracy in a broad set of tasks, including reading comprehension and natural…
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MobileNews

Future Google TV remotes may include a shortcut for switching user profiles

Google TV just announced support for user profiles this week, but it seems that feature is already getting special treatment. The maker of Google’s reference design remotes for Google TV and Android TV just revealed that the option is there for Google TV remotes to have a shortcut for user profiles. TW Electronics revealed on Twitter that the G20 reference design it produces for Google TV OEMs…
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