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• This portable battery station and solar panel are the power backup every homeowner needs at almost $500 off

  25-09-2021 16:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  TLDR: The HomePower One Backup Battery Power Station offers up to 7 days of emergency power, while the SolarPower One Portable Solar Panel restores the battery in hours. If you’re asking yourself if you’re ready for the effects of a potential disaster just as a vicious storm, wildfire, or another ferocious act of God is bearing down on your home region, it’s probably already too late. In those cases, you just have to cross your fingers and hope that homes, possessions, and the
  
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• AIs could become reward junkies — and experts are worried

  25-09-2021 15:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  In 1953, a Harvard psychologist thought he discovered pleasure – accidentally – within the cranium of a rat. With an electrode inserted into a specific area of its brain, the rat was allowed to pulse the implant by pulling a lever. It kept returning for more: insatiably, incessantly, lever-pulling. In fact, the rat didn’t seem to want to do anything else. Seemingly, the reward centre of the brain had been located. More than 60 years later, in 2016, a pair of artificial intelli
  
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• Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot will boldly go where humans shouldn’t — and make work safer

  25-09-2021 12:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  This article is part of our series that explores the business of artificial intelligence. Boston Dynamics has just released the latest update for its famous quadruped robot Spot, giving it better capability to make inspections and collect data without the need for human intervention. Called Spot Release 3.0, the new update adds “flexible autonomy and repeatable data capture, making Spot the data collection solution you need to make inspection rounds safer and more efficient.” Unlike
  
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• Leak: Apple’s new MacBook Pros may get taller, sharper displays

  25-09-2021 00:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  A new report by MacRumors provides strong evidence Apple plans to increase the resolution on its rumored ‘M1X’ 14 and 16-inch MacBook Pros, which are expected to be announced within the next month or two. MacRumors contributor Steve Moser took a close look at the latest macOS Monterey beta and found two mysterious new resolutions that don’t match any existing Mac: 3456 x 2234 and 3024 x 1964. There are a couple of interesting things about these resolutions. For one, they&rsquo
  
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