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According to reports, the two companies are forming a partnership, which will create a new sub-brand for the vehicles. They’ll be built on Geely’s electric platform and will be fitted with mapping and infotainment features developed by Baidu. With that in mind, we can think of this as a Chinese version of Android Automotive, which as it happens, was featured for the first time in another Geely-made vehicle, the Polestar 2....

— Disney+ (@disneyplus) November 12, 2020 To catch you up, the surrealist sitcom will star Wanda Maximoff and the Vision in a pastiche of every TV show made between I Love Lucy and now — most notably The Dick Van Dyke Show. It’s tied somehow into the larger MCU continuity, supposedly leading into the next Dr. Strange movie. Marvel’s been teasing it for over a year. This would be the first of Marvel’s charm offensive on behalf of Disney+, a slot originally reserved for Falcon and the Winter Soldier....

I’ve heard it said — seen it attempted — that building larger teams is an easy fix, but for every order of magnitude increase, a new layer of management needs to be designed to operate the system. This becomes even more difficult if your team isn’t equipped with the right tech. In my experience working with leading European tech companies, the most successful have flourished when their leaders do a resource balancing act....

In the video, Ford invites some current F-150 owning-men to a train yard. They are apparently unaware of the company’s plans until the electric F-150’s chief engineer, Linda Zhang, reveals the new model and its burden of the day. It’s an ad, so of course the F-150 owners were impressed when the electric vehicle managed to tow the million-pound freight train across 1,000 feet, seemingly without breaking a sweat. After that, Ford went a step further, loading the train with 42 gas F-150s, bringing the total weight to over 1....

Well, if you think that, you’re wrong. Sorry pal. When personal automobiles began to gain popularity among the upper echelons of society over 100 years ago, they weren’t gasoline, they were electric. People had charging points at their homes, and there were even battery swap stations for public use. [Read: How do you build a pet-friendly gadget? We asked experts and animal owners] One of the first ever electric vehicles was the Baker, it looks kinda like Henry Ford slapped a ski-lift gondola on some wheels....

The law allows Twitter to regulate, flag, and remove content posted by anyone, even the president. Many legal experts criticized the president’s move as a violation of the First Amendment and unenforceable because it cannot alter a law enacted by Congress. It was also pretty toothless—the order could only suggest that the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission “should” go after tech companies for bias, since the president has no authority to order those independent bodies to do so....

In the UK, the government’s protective measures for businesses and employees will ease some of the immediate pain for hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of employees. Included in its commitments is a £1.25bn package, the ‘Future Fund,’ to support innovative startups that were not covered by the government’s initial rescue schemes — by matching up to £250m of private investment and offering a further £550m of loans and grants....

Handling infrastructure as code prevents problems like unexpected code changes and configuration divergence between environments like production and development. It also ensures that every deployment you do is the exact same. You don’t have to worry about those weird differences that happen with manual deploys when this is implemented correctly. Something else to consider is that you don’t need to use different programming languages, like Python or Go. There will be some tool specific languages, but those are usually simple and have great documentation around them....

But in the past decade, thanks to advances in deep learning and artificial neural networks, the AI industry has undergone a dramatic change. Today, AI has found its way into many practical applications. Scientists, tech executives and world leaders have all touted AI in general and machine learning in particular as one of the most influential technologies of the next decade. The potential (and hype) surrounding AI has drawn the interest of commercial entities, nation states and the military, all of which want to leverage the technology to maintain the edge over their competitors....

The census has continuously adopted new technological tools to make the process easier, cheaper, and more accurate. In 1890, census takers made use of some of the first tabulating machines, and the Census Bureau purchased UNIVAC I, the first computer commercially available for civilian use, in 1951. This year, for the first time, the bureau is aiming to go predominantly digital. The biggest motivation: cost savings. According to the U....

Former Spotify boss Jim Andersen caused a stir earlier this year when comments surfaced that reignited the debate about the streaming platform’s motivations. In his words: “Spotify was created to solve a problem. The problem was to overcome piracy and get artists’ music out there. The problem was not to pay people money.” Unsurprisingly, this wasn’t well-received. The feedback was swift and sharp, with commentators across the board slamming Spotify’s attitude as harmful to artists and the music industry at large....

So what’s the latest? Not as much as you might think. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 17, 2022 The billionaire entrepreneur shared a post on Twitter, saying he is “working on Master Plan Part 3,” without revealing more details. In response, Morgan Stanley’s key analyst on all things Tesla, Adam Jonas, asserted in a research note reported by MSN: How did the Tesla aviation rumors start? There have been plenty of efforts to link Tesla and the sky....

In a statement, the company said that it’s going to make an extra effort to educate people about the app’s privacy and security practices: Does it really matter if the company is not making changes to the policy? Probably not. But first, let’s rewind a little and look at what’s happened in the past couple of weeks. In the first week of the year, WhatsApp started notifying users that a new privacy policy will take place on February 8, and if they don’t accept it, their account will be deactivated....

Now, you’ll see a magnifying glass next to frequently forwarded messages. You can tap on that icon to launch a search on the web to see if it’s some kind of myth that’s doing the rounds. Notably, WhatsApp considers messages that have been forwarded more than five times in a chain as frequently forwarded messages; those messages are marked as double arrows with forwarded label on the top. Keep in mind that because of WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption, the company can’t read your messages....

Likewise, you can think about counterfactuals, such as what would happen if the ball flew a bit higher and didn’t hit the bat. Such inferences come to us humans intuitively. We learn them at a very early age, without being explicitly instructed by anyone and just by observing the world. But for machine learning algorithms, which have managed to outperform humans in complicated tasks such as go and chess, causality remains a challenge....

Today, the motoring press been saturated with news of Kia’s new all-electric vehicle. The South Korean carmaker has sent ripples of excitement through the industry, so you’d be forgiven for thinking it has a really exciting name, but you’d be wrong. Kia has decided to call its upcoming electric car, the EV6. Clearly it stands for Electric Vehicle 6. TechCrunch was bold enough to say this was part of a new naming strategy… playing fast and loose with the word strategy there folks....

Many of the companies I have been talking to in the past eight months have had a tough time as in-person event marketing has been a vital part of their marketing mix. Digital ads, content marketing, SEO, SEA, SEM, PPC, email, etc. are all great — and can be very effective to grow your business — but companies need to build relations (especially B2B SaaS). These companies need to make deeper connections and that’s when they’ve turned to in-person events....

However, security experts are worried about surveillance and the risks of data leaks. Before taking a look at those concerns, let’s understand, what is Apple doing exactly? How does Apple plan to scan iPhones for CSAM images? A large set of features for CSAM scanning relies on fingerprinted images provided by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Apple will scan your iCloud photos and watch them with the NCMEC database to detect if there are any CSAM images....

A program that can automate website development. A bot that writes letters on behalf of nature. An AI-written blog that trended on Hacker News. Those are just some of the recent stories written about GPT-3, the latest contraption of artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI. GPT-3 is the largest language model ever made, and it has triggered many discussions over how AI will soon transform many industries. But what has been less discussed is how GPT-3 has transformed OpenAI itself....

It’s not hard to guess why the site is shutting down. Over the years, it has lost relevance and people have moved to other question-answer platforms such as Quora. As The Verge and USA Today noted, Yahoo Answers has become a home for far-right conspiracies. In a note sent to its users, Yahoo admitted that the site has “become less popular over the years as the needs of our members have changed....