Japanese carmaker Toyota, known for its ever popular hybrid vehicles, is finally launching its first battery electric vehicles later this year in America. Alongside the two BEVs, the company is also launching…
Month: February 2021
Everyone’s obsessed with Clubhouse, so Facebook is reportedly making its own
If you’re on Twitter, it’s very hard to escape discussions about Clubhouse — the audio-based social network that lets you chat with other people in real-time. It’s whipping up such a storm…
Fully pivot your business online with the help of this growth hacking training
Credit: Christina Morillo/Pexels TLDR: The Complete 2021 Growth Hacker Bundle offers entrepreneurs the playbook for a marketing strategy that can show big dividends fast, even with limited budgets. At first glance, it’s…
Facebook begins test to show less political content
Following Zuckerberg’s promise that Facebook would show less political content in the future, the company has begun testing just that. In a blog post today, the company announced it would begin to…
Twitter confirms Trump’s ban is permanent, even if he runs again
Credit: Wikimedia Commons When Twitter said it had banned Trump, some wondered how permanent the move really was. After all, Twitter long used the justification of “public intestest” when explaining why the…
NASA: We should look for polluted planets if we want to find smart ETs
And you shall know them by the pollution in their skies: A team of NASA-funded researchers may have developed a new method for sussing out intelligent extraterrestrial life. TL;DR: It’s nitrogen-dioxide. Up…
Chinese tech giant Baidu reportedly plans to launch an AI chip company
Baidu is reportedly planning to launch a subsidiary AI chip firm, which could boost China‘s efforts to develop a domestic semiconductor industry. CNBC reports that the search giant is in talks with…
The best consumer tech always sweats the small stuff
This is adapted from Plugged In, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter on gear and gadgets. Subscribe to it here. There are plenty of bullshit sayings out there — they are the force that powers Facebook’s evil after…
Anti-trashbug AI scours sky-snaps to spot sea plastic
Scientists from the University of Barcelona have developed an AI app called Marlit that detects floating marine litter in aerial photos. The system could help clean up the 8 million tons of…
The mysterious tale of India’s TikTok ban and a flower picture getting 75M daily hits
India banned TikTok and 59 other Chinese apps last year. This gave birth to a bunch of other short video apps that have expanded rapidly and receive millions of hits every day. But…