If you follow the weather — and who doesn’t? — you will hear about El Niño and La Niña from time to time. Weather forecasters will talk about how a developing El Niño, for example, may bring a wetter, or perhaps a drier, winter. Or they’ll describe how an established La Niña is making for […]
In case you didn’t get the memo: Black Friday is starting early this year, as decided by the likes of Best Buy and Amazon. From now until — well, Black Friday, Amazon will be listing its wide selection of products at specially-marked prices. While there is no word on whether the same products will go […]
James LipmanCar and Driver From the November 2021 issue of Car and Driver. Imagine if the Louvre handed over the Mona Lisa for a day. Your own private masterpiece. Take it home, hold it up to your nose for a close look, hang it on your wall. Want to run your fingers over the brushstrokes? […]
WASHINGTON — After losing the centerpiece of his climate agenda just a week before heading to a major global warming summit, President Biden intends to make the case that the United States has a new plan that will still meet its ambitions to sharply cut greenhouse gases that are warming the planet. The administration’s strategy […]
The state of artificial intelligence is promising, and it is increasingly ready for real-life enterprises. But there are shortages of talent, lack of diversity in the field, and concerns about the handling the data that fuels ever-more-sophisticated algorithms. Photo: Joe McKendrick These are some of the observations of Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth, prominent investors […]
The 2021 SEMA show is just around the corner, and Ford is coming to Las Vegas prepared with a total of six Broncos customized by some of the most well-known brands in the aftermarket industry. Of the six vehicles, four are based on full-size Broncos and the remaining two are based on Bronco Sports. There’s […]
Will also serve as Chair of the ESS Board Audit Committee Wilsonville, Oregon, United States, October 20, 2021 — ESS Tech, Inc. (NYSE:GWH) (“ESS” or “ESS Inc.”), a U.S. manufacturer of long-duration batteries for commercial and utility-scale energy storage applications, announces the appointment of Alexi Wellman to the company’s Board of Directors, effective October 12, […]
You may have noticed that last week, Microsoft and Nvidia announced they had trained “the world’s largest and most powerful generative language model,” known as “Megatron-Turing NLG 530B,” as ZDNet’s Chris Duckett reported. The model, in this case, is a neural network program based on the “Transformer” approach that has become widely popular in deep […]
Big Dot of Happiness Trunk-or-treat is a relatively new phenomenon that’s quickly becoming a part of every Halloween lover’s holiday. Trunk-or-treat events are usually put on by churches and schools, where parking lots fill with vehicles passing out candy from the trunk. This tends to be a fun social event with plenty of food and […]
UK’s REPP signs USD 1.25m deal with majority women-led developer in West Africa for solar mini-grids project in Sierra Leone. USD 1.25 million loan from REPP marks UK-government funded programme’s first investment in a majority women-led company. Rural communities reaping health and socio-economic benefits of REPP-supported solar mini-grid project in Sierra Leone. London, United […]