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US solar installations expected to be a record 32 GW in 2023

September 7, 2023
The US solar industry is expecting to install an unprecedented 32 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity in 2023, according to a report released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie. This year’s anticipated installed solar capacity is a 52% surge from 2022, according to the new “US Solar Market Insight Q3 2023” report. Supply chain bottlenecks as a result of…
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Quick Charge Podcast: September 6, 2023

September 7, 2023
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…
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2024 Hyundai Kona electric owners get in-car payments, new EV features coming soon

September 7, 2023
Hyundai is launching an in-car payments service, Hyundai Pay, for the new and improved 2024 Hyundai Kona electric. 2024 Hyundai Kona electric gets in-car payments 2024 Hyundai Kona electric owners can find and pay for things directly through their vehicle’s touchscreen. Hyundai is partnering with Parkopedia to launch its first service, a parking payment method. Through the partnership, US…
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NASA’s Psyche Mission on Track for Liftoff Next Month

September 7, 2023
The spacecraft’s solar arrays are folded like an envelope into their stowed position. Xenon gas – fuel for the journey to the asteroid belt – is loaded. All four thrusters have passed their final tests. Engineers have confirmed the massive high-gain antenna is set to…
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Potential Supreme Court clash looms over copyright issues in generative AI training data

September 7, 2023
As early as last fall, before ChatGPT had even launched, experts were already predicting that issues related to the copyrighted data that trained generative AI models would unleash a wave of litigation that, like other big technological changes that changed how the commercial world worked — such as video recording and Web 2.0 — could one day come before a certain group of nine…
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You can now make an AI clone of yourself — or anyone else, living or dead — with Delphi

September 7, 2023
My favorite episode of the hit sci-fi/horror TV series Black Mirror is “Be Right Back,” which premiered 10 years ago now, and captured the alienating experience of a woman cloning her dead ex-boyfriend by using a service that analyzed his social media posts and texts to recreate his personality. The episode seemed fantastical but just on the edge of plausible at the time in 2013 — after…
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