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• How ‘last-mile’ services and shared mobility can streamline the delivery business

  COVID-19-Lockdown-Stay home-Physical distancing-Online shopping-Demand for delivery. The above set of words sum up most of 2020. With the physical world of retail becoming less accessible, the convenience of online shopping has made the former even less attractive and has driven ...

  • Urban Mobility Daily

• Scientists figured out how to stop time using quantum algorithms

  Everyone's always talking about traveling through time, but if you ask me the ultimate temporal vacation would be just to pause the clock for a bit. Who among us couldn't use a five or six month break after 2020 before we commit to an entire new calendar year? It's not you 2021; it's ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google's new trillion-parameter AI language model is almost 6 times bigger than GPT-3

  A trio of researchers from the Google Brain team recently unveiled the next big thing in AI language models: a massive one trillion-parameter transformer system. The next biggest model out there, as far as we're aware, is OpenAI's GPT-3, which uses a measly 175 billion parameters. Background: ...

  • Tristan Greene

• We ranked the best (and worst) EV pedestrian warning noises

  Electric vehicles have to emit noises to warn pedestrians and other road users of their presence. We ranked some from best ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Hundreds sign letter demanding answers after GitHub fires Jewish employee for calling insurrectionists Nazis

  GitHub allegedly fired a Jewish employee for saying “there are Nazis about” in reaction to the insurrectionist occupation ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Trump admin launches National AI Initiative Office

  The White House today announced the launch of its National AI Initiative Office, marking what should be President Trump's final manipulation of the country's gutted Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). According to an OSTP press release: The Office is charged with overseeing ...

  • Tristan Greene

• 7 essential VS Code extensions for Python developers in 2021

  We listed the best VS extensions for JS developers. Now it’s time we do so for the Python community. I’m a PyCharm user and I won’t probably be changing editors anytime soon, but with all the hype around VS Code and so many people over Reddit and Twitter suggesting me the ...

  • Live Code Stream

• The rotary knob lives on! BMW previews next generation iDrive

  BMW introduced its iDrive system 20 years ago, and its rotary dial has got better and better over the years. It's simple, ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Why people bought more ebikes during the pandemic than ever before

  Walking and cycling gained a higher profile than ever in 2020 as a result of the pandemic. Governments around the world encouraged ...

  • The Conversation

• DeepMind’s mounting losses show why it’s hard to run an AI research lab

  Last week, on the heels of DeepMind’s breakthrough in using artificial intelligence to predict protein folding came the ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Sony’s concept car is being tested on public roads, just 12 months after reveal

  Last year at CES, Sony unveiled its Vision-S concept car. Well, it's only been 12 months and the company is already testing ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• The US Army is developing a nightmarish thermal facial recognition system

  The US Army just took a giant step toward developing killer robots that can see and identify faces in the dark. DEVCOM, ...

  • Tristan Greene