The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the speed and scale of adoption of digital health technologies in a way that’s hard to imagine under normal circumstances. Innovations like telemedicine and chatbots designed to…
Month: October 2020
Dear Nissan, why won’t you replace this lovely Canadian’s Leaf battery?
Over the course of this week, a story from across the pond in Canada has been gathering pace. It’s highlighting the potentially dangerous future we could head towards if we don’t take…
NASA says this planet is just too damn hot to exist
The exoplanet LTT 9779b is far more massive than our own world, and the world is nearly five times larger. Temperatures on its surface put Venus — the hottest planet in our…
With 1M global charge points, what’s next for EV charging?
This article was originally published by Michael Coates on Clean Fleet Report, a publication that gives its readers the information they need to move to cars and trucks with best fuel economy,…
How AI is helping Indian cotton farmers reduce pesticide use
There are more than 5.8 million cotton farmers in India according to the country’s Textile Ministry. Every year, they face heavy losses due to pests attacking their crops. In 2017, farmers in…
Watch this self-driving race car hilariously smash into a wall
Autonomous vehicles will save us all! Self-driving cars are the future! …or, so I thought until I watched the following clip. Before we get to that, a bit of background. The video…
QAnon conspiracy bots are taking over Twitter
Americans who seek political insight and information on Twitter should know how much of what they are seeing is the result of automated propaganda campaigns. Nearly four years after my collaborators and…
How Nvidia’s Maxine uses AI to improve video calls
One of the things that caught my eye at Nvidia’s flagship event, the GPU Technology Conference (GTC), was Maxine, a platform that leverages artificial intelligence to improve the quality and experience of…
Yet another issue professional women need to deal with: LinkedIncels
This article originally featured in Byte Me, our monthly feminist newsletter that makes everyone mad. In each edition, we choose a “word of the month” that we’ve either made up or found…
Google’s new AI automatically turns webpages into videos
If you have a product webpage, you’d wish that you could create a handy video to show to clients with all the info. However, you might not have the budget to hire…