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Ford creates a premium gas fragrance for electric cars in bizarre attempt to help EV adoption

July 16, 2021
That’s not a joke headline. You are not on the Onion. Ford surveyed drivers and found that most of them would “miss the smell of petrol” if they go electric. The automaker then came up with a Mach-Eau (get it?) scent to help those drivers transition to electric vehicles. Yes, it’s a thing. Everyone knows a gearhead who loves the smell of burning rubber and petrol. It’s not entirely…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Quick Charge Podcast: July 15, 2021

July 16, 2021
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…
GamingNews

I cannot get over Valve’s aggressive pricing for the Steam Deck

July 16, 2021
Did you miss today’s livestream? Watch the AI at the Edge & IoT Summit on demand now. Valve has a new handheld, and I’m shocked by its price more than anything else. The Steam Deck is launching this December starting at $400. And that price gets you the 64GB model and a Nintendo Switch-like handheld running modern AMD hardware. This includes the following list of specs for the Steam…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Making dumb machines smarter with contextual NLP — and real-world applications

July 16, 2021
Did you miss today’s livestream? Watch the AI at the Edge & IoT Summit on demand now. At Transform 2021, Sarah Pearson, AI/ML for DoD spoke with Jonathan Rosenberg, CTO and Head of AI at Five9, Christian Kitchell, AI solutions executive & head of Erica at the Bank of America, and Barak Turovsky, Head of Product NLP at Google AI, about recent advances in conversational technology…
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MobileNews

Asus brings a collection of new Chromebooks to India w/ Celeron processors, $300 prices

July 16, 2021
Much of the explosive growth Chromebooks have experienced over the past year has come from just one market, the United States. In a bid to get more customers in on the action, though, Asus has just debuted several new Chromebooks in India that all carry affordable price tags. Asus is launching a total of four new Chromebook models in India with an average price around ₹21,000 ($300 USD).
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