Month: August 2023
NASA reveals pollution maps gathered by the TEMPO space instrument
NASA has published the first maps from its new space-based pollution instrument, TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution). Although you won’t be shocked to learn it reveals higher pollution rates in metropolitan areas, the tool can help scientists better study North American air quality on an hourly basis. “Neighborhoods and…
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Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa is coming to the Code Conference
Praveen Penmetsa is bringing the AI craze to farms. His company, Monarch Tractor, makes an electric tractor powered by an Nvidia AI platform that allows the vehicle to drive itself through farm fields and work autonomously. The first machines rolled out of the company’s Livermore, California headquarters last year. Now,…
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For Native Hawaiian advocates, tech billionaires’ donations don’t go far enough
The fires that devastated Maui this month are reigniting calls for tech billionaires there to be better neighbors — or maybe not be neighbors at all. Amazon executive chair Jeff Bezos, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Nvidia president and CEO Jensen Huang, and Workday co-founder David Duffield all own sprawling properties…
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YouTube tests a new hum-to-search feature on Android
Google is testing a new YouTube feature that lets you hum or record a song to search for it. If you’re part of the YouTube experiment for the feature, you can hum or record three or more seconds of a song so that Google can try to identify it, according…
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Google, Amazon, Nvidia, and others put $235 million into Hugging Face
Open-source AI model repository Hugging Face just got massive investments from Google, Amazon, Nvidia, and Salesforce as demand for AI model access grows. Hugging Face, which acts like GitHub for machine learning and other AI models, codes, and datasets, raised $235 million in a Series D fundraising round, reported CNBC.…
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Citizen Is Suspending Sales of Its New Wear OS Smartwatch
The second-generation CZ Smart launched a few months ago. Both the company and reviewers have found serious technical issues. Source
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