Facebook began rolling out its stand-alone Facebook News tab in the U.K. Tuesday, after saying late last November that it would do so in early 2021. Director of news partnerships for Europe Jesper Doub said in a blog post last November that Facebook News would debut in the U.K. with publisher partners including Archant, Cond?…Read More
Imagine a farm three-quarters the size of California that requires the amount of water used in Idaho and Texas combined. Instead of eating the food produced on this farm, however, it’s loaded onto a semitruck every 20 seconds and brought straight to a landfill. This, according to Dana Gunders, executive director of the nonprofit ReFED,…Read More
People on Clubhouse love talking about Clubhouse. Early on Monday morning, a group hosted a Clubhouse for Beginners session, offering a roadmap for users new to the app: “On Clubhouse, you are able to be yourself,” one male entrepreneur said, confidently addressing the 50-person crowd. “You’re not a keyboard warrior like on some of these…Read More
LONDON–There are few brands in the world renowned enough to get away with stripping the brand name from their packaging like it’s no big deal–and Coca-Cola is definitely one of them. The beverage giant has done just that as part of a new European campaign, titled “Open to Better,” which aims to encourage fans to…Read More
Even past its founder’s Twitter feed and swashbuckling ways, Tesla has managed to carve out substantial mindshare with the public. Moreover, the company took a huge leap, with over 50% of the U.S. plug-in electric vehicle (EV) market, driven mainly by its Model 3, a more entry-level offering. Past Tesla, the landscape is crowded with…Read More
Deep neural networks can perform wonderful feats thanks to their extremely large and complicated web of parameters. But their complexity is also their curse: The inner workings of neural networks are often a mystery — even to their creators. This is a challenge that has been troubling the artificial intelligence community since deep learning started to become popular in the early 2010s. In tandem with the expansion of deep learning in various domains and applications, there has been a growing interest in developing techniques that try to explain neural networks by examining their results and learned parameters. But these explanations are often erroneous and misleading, and…
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A new partnership between future fuel firms, PowerTap Hydrogen Fuelling and the Andretti Group, could be bringing 100 new hydrogen filling pumps to gas stations across the US. The deal, announced earlier today, will begin by fitting hydrogen pumps to 39 Andretti-owned filling stations in California. So, that sucks if you don’t live in California and want to get a hydrogen car. Once these 39 locations are complete, other Andretti locations across the rest of the US will be retrofitted with the company’s hydrogen dispensing pumps. PowerTap Hydrogen has ambitions to install more than 500 hydrogen filling stations across the…
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Twitter teamed up with customer experience management platform Sprinklr on From AM to DM: Twitter Customer Care in a 24/7 World, which analyzed nearly a half-billion tweets from the past year to identify the best practices for customer support on the social network. Sprinklr analyzed 436 million brand mentions on Twitter related to 1,226 global…Read More
The coronavirus pandemic has had us spend more time on our phones. Last year gave birth to doomscrolling and it was hard to take your eyes off the screen. Now a new app called Opal has a novel approach to disconnecting your apps from the internet to help you save some time from mindless hours of browsing. The iOS app uses a custom VPN to manage all these connections. So, once you start a session on Opal, you’d be able to open the app, but you won’t be able to refresh your feed. This is an interesting approach, and it kinda…
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Creators on Pinterest are going for a carousel ride. Pinterest said Tuesday that it will begin rolling out Story Pins following streams, a new carousel at the tome of the home feed of its Android and iOS applications dedicated to content from creators followed by Pinners. The carousel feed also includes a “Discover creators” icon,…Read More
