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Andrew Tarantola has covered topics from military hardware and cutting-edge medical devices to cannabis accoutrements and home cooking gadgets since getting his tech journalism start in 2011. His current beats focus on EVs, spaceships, robots, and HALs (Artificial Intelligences and Machine Learning systems), as well as the weekly Hitting the Books column.
EngadgetWhat to look for in an electric lawn mower
If you're looking to electrify your lawn care equipment, here's some advice on what features to look for by two engineers who helped design said features.
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Cadillac's Lyriq EV will start at $62,990
Cadillac has announced pricing and charging service options for the Lyriq crossover EV ahead of orders for the 2023 model opening on May 19th.
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Hitting the Books: Why we need to treat the robots of tomorrow like tools
In their new book, The Digital Mindset, authors Paul Leonardi and Tsedal Neeley make the case for treating tomorrow's humanoid robots like products, not peers.
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Google makes its AI assistant more accessible with 'Look and Talk'
Google Assistant users will soon be able to activate the feature by looking at a Nest Hub and asking their question instead of saying "Hey, Google."
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Google Maps adds an ‘Immersive View’ of major cities
Google Maps is getting an "Immersive View" that will offer users digitally rendered looks at major US cityscapes, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai told the audience at Google I/O developer conference on Wednesday.
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SLAC's newest laser works best when it's colder than outer space
It took nearly a decade but the new super-powerful, super-chilled coherent laser system at Stanford's SLAC is ready to unlock the quantum realm's secrets with massively powerful X-ray blasts.
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IBM wants its quantum supercomputers running at 4,000-plus qubits by 2025
IBM announced on Wednesday plans to further advance its quantum ambitions and operate a 4,000-qubit system by 2025.
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Clearview AI agrees to limit sales of facial recognition data in the US
Clearview AI has agreed to permanently stop selling its biometric database to private companies and individuals in the US as part of a landmark settlement with the ACLU.
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Hitting the Books: US regulators are losing the fight against Big Tech
Despite its nearly limitless resources, federal regulators and legislators have struggled to keep pace -- much less rein in -- the worst tendencies of today's Big Tech corporations as Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge in 'Access Rules'
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Polestar raises the price of its single-motor Polestar 2 by $2,500
Polestar announced on Wednesday that it will be increasing the price of its single motor Polestar 2 EV by $2500 on account of all the cool new standard features it has added in recent months.
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Hitting the Books: Dodge, Detroit and the Revolutionary Union Movement of 1968
In the excerpt below from Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor, journalist Kim Kelly recalls the wildcat strikes across the American auto industry in 1967, coinciding with the emergence of DRUM, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement.
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Blizzard will reveal the first Warcraft mobile game on May 3rd
Tune into Reveal.Blizzard.com on Tuesday, May 3rd at 10am Pacific to learn more about World of Warcraft coming to mobile!
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Google takes first steps in rolling out Android’s Privacy Sandbox
After an initial round of alpha testing and feedback, Google announced on Thursday that the first developer's preview of the sandbox is now available as part of the Android 13 beta 1.
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Meta's newest AI discovers stronger and greener concrete formulas
A team from Meta AI, working with researchers at The University of Illinois, Urban-Champaign, have created an AI that can devise and refine formulas for increasingly high-strength, low-carbon concrete.
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GM’s Ultium heat pump can extend EV ranges up to 10 percent
GM has announced its latest entry into waste heat reclamation game with the debut of its "Ultium Energy Recovery" system that promises to extend EV ranges and improve charging times.
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Hitting the Books: When the military-industrial complex came to Silicon Valley
In his latest book, War Virtually, professor of Anthropology at San José State University, Roberto J González examines the military's increasing reliance on remote weaponry and robotic systems are changing the way wars are waged.
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For $200, Best Buy will haul away your two biggest hunks of tech junk
Best Buy announced a new appliance recycling program Thursday allowing customers to have two large pieces (and an unlimited amount of small ones) of unwanted tech hauled away for a flat $200 fee.
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FAA revokes YouTuber's pilot license, saying he deliberately crashed his plane
On November 21st, Trevor Jacob's single-engine airplane fell out of the sky. On Thursday, the FAA accused him of staging the entire incident for online clout.
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MIT's newest computer vision algorithm identifies images down to the pixel
A team of researchers at MIT CSAIL, in collaboration with Cornell University and Microsoft, have developed STEGO, an algorithm able to identify images down to the individual pixel.
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Tesla nearly doubled its revenue in Q1 despite industry wide supply chain woes
Ignoring the whole Twitter thing, Tesla built 305,000 vehicles in the first quarter of this year, delivered 310,000 of them, and opened two new factories in Berlin and Austin.