Cleantech & EV'sNews

Chinese university develops new material to accelerate solid state battery production

A team at University of Science and Technology of China has developed a new material that could potentially help lower the production costs of solid state lithium batteries and accelerate their commercialization into EVs. The new material, lithium zirconium chloride, offers a reduced material cost and necessary performance, all while remaining stable. Solid state batteries have become a…
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GamingNews

Bobby Kotick apologizes for ‘tone deaf’ response to sex discrimination charges at Activision Blizzard

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick apologized for the “tone deaf” company response to allegations of sex discrimination at the big video game publisher. In a statement to all employees, Kotick said that he appreciated the courage of all of the employees who have come forward with their own complaints in the wake…
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AI & RoboticsNews

InVia Robotics raises $30M for warehouse robotics push

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. InVia Robotics, an industrial robotics company based in Los Angeles, California, today announced it has raised $30 million in a series C round co-led by Microsoft’s M12 Ventures and Qualcomm…
AI & RoboticsNews

Can you teach AI common sense?

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Even before they speak their first words, human babies develop mental models about objects and people. This is one of the key capabilities that allows us humans to learn to live socially and…
MobileNews

Discord launches long-awaited Threads feature on iOS and Mac

After introducing the Replies function last fall, Discord is now launching a new Threads feature to keep the conversation more organized in big channels. Threads are available on multiple platforms, like iMessage, Slack, and Twitter, but if by any chance you don’t use these platforms, here’s how Discord describes it: “A Thread is a quick way to branch a conversation off of a channel’s…
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MobileNews

Some Siri commands for third-party apps will stop working with iOS 15

Apple today sent out an email to developers letting them know that a handful of Siri intents are no longer supported. If customers invoke these commands via Siri for a supporting app in iOS 15 or later, Siri will simply reply that the request cannot be handled. Affected Siri domains include ride booking, configuration of vehicles via Siri over CarPlay, and third-party Photo Search. Many of these…
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