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• DeepMind’s astounding new ‘Gato’ AI makes me fear humans will never achieve AGI

  13-05-2022 21:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  DeepMind today unveiled a new multi-modal AI system capable of performing more than 600 different tasks. Dubbed Gato, it’s arguably the most impressive all-in-one machine learning kit the world’s seen yet. According to a DeepMind blog post: The agent, which we refer to as Gato, works as a multi-modal, multi-task, multi-embodiment generalist policy. The same network with the same weights can play Atari, caption images, chat, stack blocks with a real robot arm and much more, deciding
  
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• Android Auto gets a UI makeover and increased functionalities

  13-05-2022 19:12 via thenextweb.com
  
   It’s been a big week of updates on all things Google. Yesterday the company launched a bunch of handy updates for Android Auto, giving the in-car digital experience a much-needed refresh with added features and a far superior user interface. Let’s take a look. Split screen for the win I’m liking the split screen functionality Android‘s making split screen mode standard across all screen types and sizes, including widescreen and portrait. This removes the need to fi
  
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• Bird unveils new AR tools to curb illegal escooter parking

  13-05-2022 17:29 via thenextweb.com
  
  This week, escooter company Bird launched the latest tech to stop bad rider behavior. The Bird VPS (Visual Parking System) was shown on stage at Google I/O, demonstrating the latest tech to monitor escooter parking. The tool is powered by Google’s ARCore Geospatial API, enabling Bird to geo-localize parked scooters with pinpoint accuracy. This is achieved by taking advantage of the tech giant’s years of 3D scanning, global Street View data, and augmented reality technology.  Le
  
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• The stablecoin crash proves we need better regulations to protect consumers

  13-05-2022 16:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  Some cryptocurrencies have always been fairly volatile, with values soaring or plunging within a short space of time. So for the more cautious investor, “stablecoins” were considered the sensible place to go. As the name implies, they are designed to be a steadier and safer bet. At the moment though, that stability is proving hard to find. The value of one of the most popular stablecoins, Terra (also known as UST), has fluctuated wildly in the last few days, before dropping dramatic
  
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• You can now order a Tesla Semi: Here’s everything you need to know

  13-05-2022 16:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  Tesla has finally opened orders for its long-anticipated, electric Semi truck — to US customers at least. Expectedly, the automaker didn’t reveal any production date, but this week it did give us a better glance at performance figures, claimed range, and pricing. Credit: Tesla Performance specs Tesla will offer two different Semi models: one with 482km (300 miles) of range, and one with 804km (500 miles) of available juice between charges. Both are powered by four rear-axle motors.
  
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• Without enough EVs to replace gas-guzzlers, net-zero is doomed to fail

  13-05-2022 13:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  The road map to replacing old-fashioned carbon-emitting cars with electric vehicles is well developed – at least in theory. All the major car makers (and even some of the smaller ones) are publicly committed to electric. But actually, buying a new electric car? That’s another matter entirely. Volkswagen, the largest car manufacturer in the world, recently announced it had sold out of electric vehicles in the US and Europe for the rest of 2022. Ford’s E-Transit s
  
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• Elon Musk is putting his Twitter deal on hold because… bots

  13-05-2022 13:05 via thenextweb.com
  
  Elon Musk said today he’s temporarily putting the Twitter deal on hold — because of bots. Yep, you read that right. Musk said the company has to prove that bots consist of less than 5% of users on the platform. This comes after a Twitter filing with SEC earlier this month, that claimed that the number of bots and spam accounts in its daily active users count — 229 million in Q1 2022 — is less than 5%. Removing bots from Twitter was the Tesla CEO’s one of the most a
  
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• Remember that first picture of a black hole in our galaxy? We took it

  13-05-2022 11:58 via thenextweb.com
  
  Black holes are among the most profound predictions of Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Originally studied as a mere mathematical consequence of the theory rather than as physically relevant objects, they soon became thought of as generic and sometimes inevitable outcomes of the gravitational collapse that initially forms a galaxy. In fact, most physicists have suspected that our own galaxy revolves around a supermassive black hole at its center. There are other ideas too –
  
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• Bridging Web 2 and Web 3: an identity perspective

  13-05-2022 01:59 via yenkel.dev
  
  https://yenkel.dev/posts/bridging-web-2-and-web-3-an-identity-perspective
  
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