Cleantech & EV'sNews

Awesomely weird Alibaba electric vehicle of the week: Electric go-karts under $400!

February 20, 2021
Go-karts are the perfect fun-mobiles to bring out the kid in anyone. But gone are the days when you had to choke down a cloud of exhaust to the deafening roar of a single screaming, overworked piston. These days, electric go-karts are providing kids and adults alike with fast, silent, and clean thrills around the local track or the neighborhood lady’s rose bushes. For this week’s entry in the…
Read more
AI & RoboticsNews

Google fires Ethical AI lead Margaret Mitchell

February 20, 2021
Google fired Margaret “Meg” Mitchell, lead of the Ethical AI team, today. The move comes just hours after Google announced diversity policy changes and Google AI chief Jeff Dean sent an apology in the wake of the firing of former Google AI ethics lead Timnit Gebru in…
AI & RoboticsNews

AI Weekly: The challenges of creating open source AI training datasets

February 20, 2021
In January, AI research lab OpenAI released Dall-E, a machine learning system capable of creating images to fit any text caption. Given a prompt, Dall-E generates photos for a range of concepts, including cats, logos, and glasses. The results are impressive, but training Dall-E required building a large-scale dataset that OpenAI has so far opted not to make public. Work is ongoing on an open…
Read more
Cleantech & EV'sNews

Tesla releases video of new Model S Plaid winter testing, shows round steering wheel

February 20, 2021
Tesla has released a short video of a new Model S Plaid winter testing, and it is equipped with a normal round steering wheel. Last month, Tesla officially unveiled the new Model S and Model X refresh. The unveiling of the new vehicle was somewhat strangely on the sidelines of the release of its Q4 and full-year 2020 earnings. Tesla didn’t do an official release of the updated vehicles. CEO…
Read more
MobileNews

iPhone 12 vs. iPhone 12 Pro: Which should you buy in 2021?

February 20, 2021
On the surface, the iPhone 12 vs iPhone 12 Pro are very similar phones. They both feature 6.1-inch OLED displays with flat-edge designs and Apple’s A14 Bionic processor inside, but look a little closer, and there are several notable differences worth exploring. If you’re…
MobileNews

Twitter’s work on a subscription service gains traction with new iOS engineer job listings [U]

February 20, 2021
Twitter has posted about half a dozen new open positions for its in the works subscription service, and this time the new roles include two that are specifically for iOS engineers. Last summer we saw Twitter accidentally publicly revealed its new Gryphon team that’s working on a subscription product in a job listing before quickly redacting the mention of a subscription. Update: We’ve also…
Read more