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Existing battery swap networks like Nio’s have mostly included a single company’s equipment, giving the manufacturer control over the vehicle, battery, and swapping equipment. That’s because one of the keys to making battery swapping work is fleet commonality—a base of many vehicles that can all use the same system. Fortunately, delivery drivers have formed something of a de facto fleet in New York City, says David Hammer, co-founder and president of Popwheels. Roughly half of the city’s 60,000-plus delivery workers…

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A wave of drugs dreamed up by AI is on its way Alex Zhavoronkov has been messing around with artificial intelligence for more than a decade. In 2016, the programmer and physicist was using AI to rank people by looks and sort through pictures of cats. Now he says his company, Insilico Medicine, has created the first “true AI drug” that’s advanced to a test of whether…

If you are looking for a TV under Rs 1,00,000, there are many options and a host of features you can expect from your TV. From local dimming to a native 120Hz panel with support for all HDMI 2.1 features, Rs 1,00,000 is the sweet spot for great features and performance. While we have seen OLED TVs available under Rs 1 lakh, such as the LG A2, it misses out on HDMI 2.1 support which could be a deal breaker if you are a gamer. Today, we have the 55-inch LG QNED83, which is an LED-backlit TV. The QNED in the name means that…

Zhavoronkov has a track record of implementing cutting-edge AI methods as soon as they’re available. He started Insilico in 2014, shortly after AI started to achieve new breakthroughs in image recognition with so-called deep-learning models. The new approach blew away prior techniques for classifying images and on tasks like finding cats in YouTube videos. Zhavoronkov initially found notoriety—and some controversy—for AI apps that guessed people’s age and a program that ranked people by their looks. His beauty contest…

But the platforms they thrived on have started to turn against them. Just a few weeks ago, WeChat and Douyin began suspending, removing, or restricting their accounts. While influencers on these platforms have been turning people’s anxiety into traffic and profits for a long time, the latest actions show how Chinese social platforms are trying to contain the damage before it goes too far.  The backlash started last month, as students angrily complained on social media about the superficiality of the courses, saying that…

The statement “Don’t fix it if it isn’t broken” resonates strongly with the Samsung Galaxy A55 5G, which I have been using for almost a week. The handset bears similarities with last year’s Samsung Galaxy A54 5G (review), which impressed us in nearly every aspect. However, Samsung has upped the ante by introducing the Galaxy A55 5G with an upgraded Exynos 1480 SoC. How much of a difference does it make for the smartphone? More importantly, does it elevate the Galaxy A55 5G as a superior mid-range option compared to its…

The main benefit is that the AI assistant reduces the workload of the coaches, says Ondřej Hubáček, an analyst at the sports data firm Ematiq who specializes in predictive models, and who did not work on the project. “An AI system can go through the data quickly and point out errors a team is making—I think that’s the added value you can get from AI assistants,” he says.  To assess TacticAI’s suggestions, GoogleDeepMind presented them to five football experts: three data scientists, one video analyst, and one coaching…

The big story One city’s fight to solve its sewage problem with sensors April 2021 In the city of South Bend, Indiana, wastewater from people’s kitchens, sinks, washing machines, and toilets flows through 35 neighborhood sewer lines. On good days, just before each line ends, a vertical throttle pipe diverts the sewage into an interceptor tube, which carries it to a treatment plant where solid pollutants and bacteria are filtered out. As in many American cities, those pipes are combined with storm drains, which can…

With the launch of its LOQ series last year, Lenovo established a new category of budget-focused gaming laptops and desktops. This year we have a refreshed lineup including the new 15-inch LOQ gaming laptop which is available with the latest Intel 14th-gen mobile CPUs. As of now, there is only one configuration if you are looking for the latest hardware, powered by the Core i7-14700HX and an Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU with the option of choosing a 1080p or 1440p display. This makes it an excellent choice if you are looking for a…

The companies with the most powerful AI models, such as GPT-4 and Gemini, will face more onerous requirements, such as having to perform model evaluations and risk-assessments and mitigations, ensure cybersecurity protection, and report any incidents where the AI system failed. Companies that fail to comply will face huge fines or their products could be banned from the EU.  It’s also worth noting that free open-source AI models that share every detail of how the model was built, including the model’s architecture,…