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• Opinion: Tech lords threatening to pull services should stop crying wolf

  26-05-2023 18:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, really wants AI regulation. Truly, madly, deeply, he wants it. Because of safety and stuff. Unless, of course, it’s the type of regulation that he doesn’t want. If that’s the case, he’ll threaten to withdraw his services instead. Altman issued the warning this week during a tour of European regulators. He said OpenAI could “cease operating” in the EU if it can’t comply with the bloc’s impending AI Act. The 38-year-ol
  
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• BMW’s new electric 5 Series lets you play games while charging the car

  26-05-2023 15:36 via thenextweb.com
  
  BMW has partnered with Swiss gaming platform AirConsole to bring in-car gaming to its new all-electric 5 Series.   Drivers and passengers can play the games to kill time while the vehicle is charging, for example. Sadly, but probably for the best, you can’t play while the car is moving.  In addition to the new BMW 5 Series, which debuted this week, the AirConsole app will be rolled out in other BMW vehicles. The service has been available on TVs for some time, but this is t
  
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• Dutch startup targets European intercity air taxi service from 2027

  26-05-2023 13:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  Dutch aviation startup ELECTRON Aviation has inked an agreement with Twente Airport, in the next step of its plans to launch a zero-emissions short-haul flight service from 2027.  The startup’s planned fleet of electric air taxis will transport up to four passengers at a time to various European cities within a 500km radius of the airport.  “To be clear, that gets you to Berlin, London, or Paris, all in under 2 hours,” said Josef Mouris, CEO and co-founder of ELECTRO
  
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• ‘Digital bridge’ between brain and spine enables paralysed man to walk again

  26-05-2023 09:45 via thenextweb.com
  
  Over a decade ago, a cycling accident left Gert-Jan Oskam paralysed after causing him a spinal cord injury. Now, he’s able to stand and walk again thanks to an innovative brain-spine interface (BSI) developed by a team of Swiss neuroscientists. To walk, the brain must send a command to the region of the spinal cord that’s responsible for movement control. But a spinal cord injury interrupts this communication. “Our idea was to reestablish this communication with a “digit
  
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