BMW and Rimac Technology have announced a new partnership to redefine high-voltage battery technology. This strategic partnership is set to catapult the premium electric mobility sector into a new era, where the synergy between BMW’s extensive experience in battery and electric drive systems and Rimac’s specialization in electrification will lead to groundbreaking innovations. With the […]
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Behind most every tech billionaire is a sci-fi novel they read as a teenager. For Bill Gates it was Stranger in a Strange Land, the 1960s epic detailing the culture clashes that arise when a Martian visits Earth. Google’s Sergey Brin has said it was Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, the cyberpunk classic about hackers and computer viruses set in an Orwellian Los Angeles. Jeff Bezos cites Iain M. Banks’ Culture series, which unreel in an utopian society of humanoids and artificial intelligences,...
We think our faces are our own. But technology can use them to identify, influence and mimic us. This week, TED speakers explore the promise and peril of turning the human face into a digital tool.
Sometimes people accidentally make good points while believing they are making the opposite point. Right before the eclipse, liberal activist David Pepper asked an easy-to-answer question whose answer is in fact informative — even if Pepper thought it was a stumper. Very few arguments in the past few years have been as annoying and smug […]
Recently introduced through Google Research, ScreenAI is an exciting new Google technology. Although still in its research phase, read on to learn more about ScreenAI, how it works and when you might get a chance to try the technology yourself. What is ScreenAI? ScreenAI is described as being a new “vision-language model for user interfaces and infographics that achieves state-of-the-art results on UI and infographics-based tasks.” In other words, ScreenAI is a vision language...
NanoString Technologies, Inc. (“NanoString” or “the Company”), a leading provider of life science tools for discovery and translational research, toda
What is it with waiters that refuse to write your order down? They seem to relish the fact that it obviously makes punters feel edgy that they aren’t going to get your order correct and then there’s the smug look they give you when you innocently ask ‘are you going to remember all that?’ ‘Yes’ […]
The community open house is 1:30-2:30 p.m. Friday, April 19.
If someone says, “Trust the science!” these days, it’s usually an effort to short-circuit debate over weighty policy issues. “Trust the science” has been deployed in the past five years to prevent debate over COVID school closures and mask mandates, over electric-car subsidies, and over sex changes for boys and girls. For my entire time […]