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• This AI app enhances your crappy photos — or turns them into monstrosities

  20-12-2021 19:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  AI is having a big impact on photo editing, but the results are proving divisive. The proponents say that AI unleashes new artistic ideas and cuts the time creators spent on monotonous work. Critics, however, argue that the techniques distort reality and propagate an artificial homogeneity. A new entry to the debate is GFP-GAN. The system gives low-quality images a high-resolution revamp — and the results can be impressive. GFP-GAN’s outputs (far-right) look impressive compared to o
  
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• Wait… a kite can tow a cargo ship and use wind power to cut emissions?

  20-12-2021 18:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sometimes, I like a weird idea or two, especially if it involves two things that don’t fit together, like balloons and the internet or cargo ships and kites…. Remember when X, a subsidiary company of Alphabet — yes, the parent company of Google — was working on Project Loon? It uses giant balloons to beam the internet to people living in remote parts of the world? In January this year, Loon wound down in response to an unsustainable business model. But no
  
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• Goodyear joins Michelin in launching specialist EV tires

  20-12-2021 16:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  Earlier in May, Michelin introduced the Pilot Sport EV tire, its first tire especially made to address the need of electric vehicles.  Now we have another car tire manufacturer who’s focusing on the EV industry: Goodyear. In a press release, the company announced its first EV-dedicated replacement tire in North America, the ElectricDrive GT.  Why would EVs need special tires to begin with, you ask? Well, it all comes down to weight. Electric vehicles generally weigh more than co
  
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• Mainstream adoption of facial recognition can have sinister consequences

  20-12-2021 15:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  On Dec. 14, the governments of British Columbia, Alberta, and Québec ordered facial recognition company Clearview AI to stop collecting — and to delete — images of people obtained without their consent. Discussions about the risks of facial recognition systems that rely on automated face analysis technologies tend to focus on corporations, national governments, and law enforcement. But what is of great concern are the ways in which facial recognition and analysis have become
  
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• Here’s what will make net-zero aviation a reality

  20-12-2021 12:19 via thenextweb.com
  
  As international air travel rebounds after COVID-19 restrictions, greenhouse gas emissions from aviation are expected to rise dramatically – and with it, scrutiny of the industry’s environmental credentials. Aviation emissions have almost doubled since 2000 and in 2018 reached one billion tonnes. Climate Action Tracker rates the industry’s climate performance as critically insufficient. As the climate change threat rapidly worsens, can aviation make the tra
  
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• These are the 3 best phones of 2021

  20-12-2021 12:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  There are three things that are certain in this world: death, taxes, and new goddamn phones. While the global chip shortage has put a dampener on the gadget industry, it has still marched stoically forward and we’ve seen a deluge of excellent smartphones hit the market. But to quote Highlander, there can be only one. Or three. Yeah, now I think about it, actually three. In other words, we’ve selected our three favorite phones from 2021 for your reading and brain pleasure. These
  
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• A tech geek’s guide to moving to the Netherlands for work

  20-12-2021 09:44 via thenextweb.com
  
  If, like me, you have friends who’ve lived the ‘digital nomad’ life you probably understand that tinge of jealousy you get when you see Instagram stories about their weekend bike trip to a secluded beach or their Friday work drinks aboard a boat cruising through historic canals. After this long period of lockdowns and quarantine, the itch to travel and experience new things has gotten even stronger. Luckily, if you work in tech, the overwhelmingly high demand for talent means
  
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• 3 key lessons I’ve learned as a (mostly) unsuccessful businessman

  20-12-2021 08:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Since I got started in 2010, I’ve been a part of fifteen unsuccessful business projects. You could say, therefore, that my business career has mostly featured failure. But without the lessons I learned along the way, I never would have been able to get to the point of running one of the hottest startups in e-transportation, which is even making a splash around the world by selling record-breaking electric bikes. So here are the three key lessons to success… which I’ve learned
  
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