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Andrew has lived in San Francisco since 1982 and has been writing clever things about technology since 2011. When not arguing the finer points of portable vaporizers and military defense systems with strangers on the internet, he enjoys tooling around his garden, knitting and binge watching anime.
EngadgetIBM's CodeNet dataset can teach AI to translate computer languages
IBM researchers have crafted a Rosetta Stone for programming code.
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Hitting the Books: The 'symphony' of Fourier transformations that first imaged a black hole
In 2019, Dr. Heino Falcke led an international team of astronomers on an epic quest to capture images of a black hole. Light in the Darkness is a meditation on those efforts, exploring the nature of black holes through the technological, scientific, philosophical and spiritual.
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Capturing life aboard the ISS in a four-part VR documentary series
A new four-part immersive, virtual reality video series, Space Explorers: The ISS Experience, will take viewers aboard the International Space Station.
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Donald Trump's response to social media bans is... a blog
Mere hours before Facebook's Oversight Board announced its ruling as to whether or not it will allow the former president back onto its platform, Trump seized the initiative and unveiled a brand new communications platform of his very own.
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How social media recommendation algorithms help spread hate
The issues and pitfalls presented by social algorithms are well-known and have been well-documented. So, really, what are we going to do about it?
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Hitting the Books: Is the hunt for technological supremacy harming our collective humanity?
In his new book, Erik J Larson investigates the efforts to build computers that process information like we do and why we're much farther away from having human-equivalent AIs than most futurists would care to admit.
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The EU's proposed AI laws would regulate robot surgeons but not the military
The European Commission has unveiled a sweeping regulatory framework that, if adopted, could have global implications for the future of AI development.
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The Ascend is a robotic knee brace on a budget
Bay Area startup Roam Robotics has a less intensive and expensive means of getting folks with mobility issues back on their feet. It’s called the Ascend and it’s a sub-$10k exoskeletal knee brace for everybody.
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Fukushima's nuclear meltdown hasn't been the environmental calamity we feared
Despite the initial fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi incident the massive ecological disaster that many initially feared has, so far, failed to materialize.
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Tesla built, sold and shipped more vehicles in this last quarter than ever before
Elon Musk took a break from his SNL prep on Monday to host Tesla's Q1 2021 investor earnings call and let the journalists who had tuned in know all about the company's stellar start to the start of the new year.
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Hitting the Books: How IBM's metadata research made US drones even deadlier
While the US military may have you in its sights, it might not know who you actually are — even as that wrathful finger of God is called down from upon on high
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Two formerly Japan-only 'Ace Attorney' games are finally being released in English
Warm up your arguing voice and limber your objection fingers, there's a new Ace Attorney game coming to town.
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Cadillac's Lyriq EV will boast 300-plus miles of range
Cadillac plans to release its all-electric Lyriq crossover SUV beginning in the first half of 2022, and which customers will be able to reserve starting this September.
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Audi unveils its A6 e-tron concept ahead of Auto Shanghai 2021
At the biannual Auto Shanghai 2021 expo this week, Audi provided a sparkly peek at its future EV plans with the official debut of its new A6 e-tron concept vehicle.
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Hitting the Books: How Planck's 'chain of tiny beads' helps explain why lightbulbs work
'Einstein's Fridge' author Paul Sen explores the works and quirks of the pioneering researchers — from Lord Kelvin and James Joule to Emmy Noether, Alan Turing, and Stephen Hawking — who sought to understand how heat helped shape the known universe.
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The Q4 e-tron and its Sportback sibling join Audi's European EV lineup this summer
Audi’s upcoming Q4 e-tron and Q4 Sportback EV SUVs are ideal for daily errands and weekend getaways — though they'll only be available in Europe.
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Hitting the Books: How biased AI can hurt users or boost a business's bottom line
In 'A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence,' John Zerilli presents readers with an approachable, holistic examination of both the history and current state of the art, the potential benefits of and challenges facing ever-improving AI technology, and how this rapidly advancing field could influence society for decades to come.
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We're entombing the Earth in an impenetrable shell of dead satellites
A recent study suggests that there is now nowhere on Earth free from the light pollution produced by overhead debris and satellites. Researchers expect that problem to only get worse as mega-constellations of internet-beaming mini-satellites, like SpaceX’s Starlink program, take off.
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Polestar wants its cars to be carbon-neutral by 2030
Volvo’s performance EV subsidiary Polestar is reportedly taking steps to go greener than any electric auto manufacturer before it. As part of the company’s inaugural release of its annual review and sustainability report, Polestar announced on Wednesday that it plans to produce only carbon-neutral vehicles by 2030.
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GM is betting its electrified future on a revolutionary new battery system
When the Hummer EV SUT (sport utility truck) and its newly-unveiled SUV variant hit dealer show floors in the fall of 2021 and 2023, respectively, they’ll be among the first models in GM’s new electrified lineup to be built atop the company’s Ultium battery system.