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This Nigerian EV entrepreneur hopes to go head to head with Tesla

The first, introduced in 2021, is a 12-seat bus constructed from a number of locally sourced materials. It has a range of 212 kilometers and can be charged in 35 minutes via... Read more »

The right way to Keep the Ignite Alive

The expectation of a text message, the thrill of this first hug, the need-to-have-you-right-now sex—there’s much to love about quick a relationship. But as things settle down and routine sets in, it’s... Read more »

The Download: recycling batteries, and augmented reality hits stores

Why? The mirrors are part of Snap’s new effort to start offering AR products in the physical world. AR has powered Snapchat filters and Lenses (the company’s term for its in-app AR... Read more »

Why your iPhone 17 might come with a recycled battery

The quick uptake of EVs is great news for climate action, but it’s causing a tricky dynamic for battery recyclers.  Batteries can last over a decade in a vehicle, and they can... Read more »

Rethinking sustainable mobility in a new, digital landscape

Yansong Chen, senior vice president of strategy and technology at Ricardo—an environmental, engineering, and strategic consulting company—says advanced technologies are changing the way the industry looks at its value proposition, at a... Read more »

Learning to code isn’t enough

The very existence of these training endeavors reflected a mixed set of motivations on the part of the organizers, who were mostly white, well-off volunteers. These volunteers tended to conflate living in... Read more »

Snap is launching augmented-reality mirrors in stores

“Our goal is to have people use their time more efficiently in the world instead of getting immersed in a virtual one,” says Bobby Murphy, Snap’s chief technology officer.  The AR mirrors... Read more »

The Download: OpenAI’s data disaster, and screens in schools

OpenAI has just over a week to comply with European data protection laws following a temporary ban in Italy, and a slew of investigations in other EU countries. If it fails, it... Read more »

OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it

In AI development, the dominant paradigm is that the more training data, the better. OpenAI’s GPT-2 model had a data set consisting of 40 gigabytes of text. GPT-3, which ChatGPT is based... Read more »

How to teach kids who flip between book and screen

The use of digital books and textbooks exploded during the pandemic, and it may be only a matter of time before all educational publishing moves online. So it’s all the more important... Read more »