Month: June 2023

Ford offering flexible EV leases to Uber drivers

Image: Ford Ford is teaming up with Uber to offer flexible leases on electric vehicles to rideshare drivers. Uber is under pressure from governments around the world to get more of its drivers into EVs to reduce tailpipe pollution and fight climate change. And Ford is eager to get more of its Mustang Mach-Es on

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C3.ai drops 20%+ after its FY revenue outlook of 11%-20% growth to a $307.5M midpoint fell below estimates; AI jumped 258% in 2023 and 45% since Nvidia earnings (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: C3.ai drops 20%+ after its FY revenue outlook of 11%-20% growth to a $307.5M midpoint fell below estimates; AI jumped 258% in 2023 and 45% since Nvidia earnings  —  C3.ai Inc. plunged more than 15% in extended trading after providing a fiscal-year revenue outlook that fell short of analysts’ estimates …

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Polestar’s latest software update adds YouTube, upgraded Apple CarPlay

Image: Polestar Polestar’s latest software update includes YouTube so Polestar 2 owners can watch streaming video while charging their vehicles and an updated version of Apple CarPlay that includes the ability to project Apple Maps onto the instrument cluster. That last facet is interesting because it seems to offer a preview of what Apple’s next-generation

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TinyTendo is a Miniscule Yet Real NES

These days, it’s possible to get a single-board computer the size of a stick of gum. This will give you the power to emulate thousands of games and you can run one off batteries inside a handheld of your own devising. [Redherring32] took an altogether more creative and old-school approach with the TinyTendo, however. This

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Oppo announces MR Glass Developer Edition, a headset designed for developers in China to create mixed reality apps, powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2 Plus (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Oppo announces MR Glass Developer Edition, a headset designed for developers in China to create mixed reality apps, powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2 Plus  —  – Chinese electronics giant Oppo debuted a mixed reality headset on Wednesday, pushing into an area in which U.S. technology companies Microsoft …

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Sources: NYC-based Runway, which uses AI to let users generate videos from text descriptions, raised ~$100M from Google and others at a ~$1.5B valuation (Kate Clark/The Information)

Kate Clark / The Information: Sources: NYC-based Runway, which uses AI to let users generate videos from text descriptions, raised ~$100M from Google and others at a ~$1.5B valuation  —  Google is investing in Runway, a New York-based startup that lets customers generate video from text descriptions using artificial intelligence …

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Hundreds of white-collar Amazon workers in Seattle walked off the job, frustrated by job losses, a return-to-office mandate, carbon emissions, and leadership (Caroline O’Donovan/Washington Post)

Caroline O’Donovan / Washington Post: Hundreds of white-collar Amazon workers in Seattle walked off the job, frustrated by job losses, a return-to-office mandate, carbon emissions, and leadership  —  Frustrated by job losses, office policies and rising carbon emissions, white-collar Amazon workers are demanding more from leadership

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Sources: a planned $3B chip plant in India by ISMC, a consortium that included chipmaker Tower, has been stalled due to the company’s pending takeover by Intel (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: a planned $3B chip plant in India by ISMC, a consortium that included chipmaker Tower, has been stalled due to the company’s pending takeover by Intel  —  A planned $3 billion semiconductor facility in India by chip consortium ISMC that counted Israeli chipmaker Tower as a tech partner …

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After getting three applicants in 2022, India opens new applications for setting up semiconductor and display fabs under its $10B chip incentive scheme (The Financial Express)

The Financial Express: After getting three applicants in 2022, India opens new applications for setting up semiconductor and display fabs under its $10B chip incentive scheme  —  The applications will be received by India Semiconductor Mission, the designated nodal agency entrusted with the responsibility …

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Berlin-based travel experiences marketplace GetYourGuide raised $194M, with an $85M Series F and a $109M revolving credit facility, at a $2B valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Berlin-based travel experiences marketplace GetYourGuide raised $194M, with an $85M Series F and a $109M revolving credit facility, at a $2B valuation  —  The tourist industry is bouncing back after a rough couple of pandemic-stressed years, and in the case of some tourism and travel startups …

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Sources: a planned $3B chip plant in India by ISMC, a consortium that included chipmaker Tower, has been stalled due to the company’s pending takeover by Intel (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: a planned $3B chip plant in India by ISMC, a consortium that included chipmaker Tower, has been stalled due to the company’s pending takeover by Intel  —  A planned $3 billion semiconductor facility in India by chip consortium ISMC that counted Israeli chipmaker Tower as a tech partner …

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OpenAI researchers say training AI with process supervision, which rewards the thought process rather than the outcome, could help prevent hallucinations (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Hayden Field / CNBC: OpenAI researchers say training AI with process supervision, which rewards the thought process rather than the outcome, could help prevent hallucinations  —  – AI hallucinations occur when models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Bard fabricate information entirely.

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A Simple Guide to Cams

With the availability of precision controllable actuators, it’s easy to overlook the simple but versatile mechanisms that got us here. In the video after the break, [Teaching Tech] explores the basics of cams and how to use them in your projects. Cams are used to convert rotation into linear motion, and are probably best known

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Evident: at some banks, about 40% of all open job roles are AI-related; JPMorgan advertised 3,651 AI-related roles from February 2023 through April 2023 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Evident: at some banks, about 40% of all open job roles are AI-related; JPMorgan advertised 3,651 AI-related roles from February 2023 through April 2023  —  Deutsche Bank AG is using artificial intelligence to scan wealthy client portfolios.  ING Group NV is screening for potential defaulters.

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More Ideas For Setting Up An Electronics Workbench

Setting up an electronics work area is a highly personal and situational affair, with many interesting problems to be solved, and for many of us, significant budget constraints. The requirements for electronics development vary wildly depending upon the sort of work to be undertaken, but there is core equipment that many of us would consider

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Apple might announce ‘several’ Macs at WWDC

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Apple could have a pretty big Worldwide Developers Conference next week, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. In addition to the rumored mixed reality headset and the usual updates to its operating systems, Gurman is expecting Apple to focus on “several” new Macs at the show, he said in

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Sources: Apple is testing two new high-end Macs, one with M2 Max, and the other with the unannounced M2 Ultra chip with 60 graphics cores and up to 192GB of RAM (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is testing two new high-end Macs, one with M2 Max, and the other with the unannounced M2 Ultra chip with 60 graphics cores and up to 192GB of RAM  —  Apple Inc. is testing a pair of new high-end Macs and their accompanying processors ahead of its Worldwide Developers

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Crypto bridging protocol Multichain says it suspended service for multiple chains after being unable to contact its CEO to get server access amid tech problems (Michael McSweeney/The Block)

Michael McSweeney / The Block: Crypto bridging protocol Multichain says it suspended service for multiple chains after being unable to contact its CEO to get server access amid tech problems  —  – Multichain, the cross-chain protocol, confirmed Wednesday that the team is unable to contact its chief executive amid ongoing technology problems.

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Cortex, which sells an internal developer portal for teams making software at scale, raised a $35M Series B led by IVP, taking its total funding to nearly $53M (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Cortex, which sells an internal developer portal for teams making software at scale, raised a $35M Series B led by IVP, taking its total funding to nearly $53M  —  Cortex, a startup building an internal developer portal that helps engineering teams build better software at scale …

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