Climate change is far and away the greatest threat of the modern human era — a crisis that will only get worse the longer we dither — with American car culture as a major contributor to the nation’s greenhouse emissions. But carbon-neutralizing energy and solutions are already on the horizon and, in some more developed countries like Sweden, are already being deployed. In his latest book, Our Liva

As helpful as Tesla’s Sentry Mode may be, it doesn’t provide much insight from the car’s cameras until there’s an incident. What if you could take a peek at any moment? You just might. Electrek reports that code sleuth Green has discovered hints at remote live access to your EV’s Autopilot cameras. You could track suspicious behavior before anything happens, or simply check conditions around your

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The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) is upscaling many standard types of IT workload as well as powering new services driven by advanced algorithmic data processing and machine learning techniques. Developers of AI systems, however, have been somewhat constrained by the limitations of standard microprocessors. Pioneering AI applications needed supercomputer-class compute resources in or

Bears, scares and ransomware Well, what a year it's been. 2020 kicked off as it meant to go on, with news emerging from China of a new virus which lead to a swiftly imposed lockdown in the city of Wuhan. Looks grim, we thought, but it will probably peter out like previous viruses before it. How wrong we were. To coincide with our Deskflix Cyber Security event, here’s a look back at t

Here are three of the week’s top pieces of financial insight, gathered from around the web: Robinhood gets a challengerAn Israeli online-trading platform is challenging Robinhood for “the hearts and wallets of rookie traders,” said Edward Robinson and Justina Lee at Bloomberg. Tel Aviv–based eToro has attracted 15 million users worldwide — about the same level as Robinhood — and plans to expand in

The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: The U.S. moved last week to tighten the vise on China’s technology ambitions with a “one-two punch of industrial policy” said Ana Swanson at The New York Times. First, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., one of three companies in the world capable of making the most advanced microprocessors, announced it