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• How fintech startups can help the underserved and make a profit

  25-05-2022 21:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  Working as a tech journo, I meet many people with big, world-changing ideas. But despite the hyperbole, when I ask about how they are going to achieve their aims – or indeed if they are already up and running, who they have helped – the Zoom call often gets really quiet.  So when I meet someone who is making the lives of some of the most disadvantaged people in the world a better place, and they’re using tech to do so, I get wildly excited.  This week I had the pleas
  
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• NASA taps into the magic of diffraction to build solar sailing spacecraft

  25-05-2022 21:03 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sails have propelled earthlings across the seas for millennia, but NASA believes their future is off-world. The space agency has unveiled plans to develop a new solar sail system for a demonstration mission. Dubbed Diffractive Solar Sailing, the project won Phase III of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, which supports visionary space technologies. Those picked for Phase III are the closest to becoming real — so a spacecraft powered by solar sails isn&rsq
  
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• Electric mobility is hot, but its lithium-ion batteries are burning

  25-05-2022 17:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  Not a week goes by without seeing a video, news item, or tweet about a lithium-ion battery fire. Just over the weekend, there was news in Canada of a Tesla Model Y 2021 driver who had to break a window to escape after his car shut down and caught fire unexpectedly. The car lost power, locked him inside, and started filling up with smoke. The problem is big. Incidents range from exploding roadside mopeds to ebike batteries that catch fire while charging at home, to fires burning on cargo ships h
  
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• Google takes on OpenAI with flashy text-to-image generator

  25-05-2022 15:14 via thenextweb.com
  
  The AI imagery competition is getting personal. Google this week unveiled a new challenger to OpenAI’s vaunted DALLE-2 text-to-image generator — and took shots at its rival’s efforts. Both models convert text prompts into pictures. But Google’s researchers claim their system provides “unprecedented photorealism and deep language understanding.” Human raters preferred Imagen over DALLE-2 for both sample quality and image-text alignment. Credit:
  
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• Apple is finally forcing mobile devs to let you delete your app account easily

  25-05-2022 13:50 via thenextweb.com
  
  Apple’s finally cracking down on apps that don’t easily let you delete your account and data when you want to leave their service. Starting June 30, the company will enforce a policy that apps that provide sign up (or account creation methods) features, will also need to make sure they allow users to delete their account through that interface. Here’s what the company says in its developer guidelines: If your app supports account creation, you must also offer account deletion
  
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• What are nuclear isomers? And why are they so awesome?

  25-05-2022 09:53 via thenextweb.com
  
  Nobel laureate Otto Hahn is credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. Fission is one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, yet Hahn considered something else to be his best scientific work. In 1921, he was studying radioactivity at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin, Germany, when he noticed something he could not explain. One of the elements he was working with wasn’t behaving as it should have. Hahn had unknowingly discovered the first nuclear is
  
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• 9 Reasons to Hire a Social Media Marketing Agency

  25-05-2022 03:22 via skyje.com
  
  Working with an agency to boost your social media presence could be one of the best investments you can make for your brand. That is possible, but it requires a great deal of time,...
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