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The Ford Lightning F-150 Is the Electric Vehicle of Dystopia
The automaker says the battery inside the pickup can power a home for three days—useful in a world of fires, floods, and freezes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
All Those Electric Vehicles Pose a Problem for Building Roads
Gas taxes are the largest source of funding for highway construction and maintenance. As more cars plug in, that revenue is shrinking. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Most Radical Thing About Ford's F-150 Lightning? The Cost
After tax credits, the base model of the electric pickup will be cheaper than its gas-fueled sibling, removing what has been a big barrier for EV sales. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Roku and YouTube Are Battling for Your Precious TV Data
Connected TV advertising brought in $9 billion last year and is poised to grow as more viewers shift from cable to streaming. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Covid Forced America to Make More Stuff. What Happens Now?
A software entrepreneur pivoted to making masks at the start of the pandemic. The experience opened his eyes: “I thought, ‘Wow, the US really is behind.’” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Live Audio Apps Lure Creators With Money and Promises
Talk is cheap, unless you’re an in-demand content creator for platforms like Clubhouse and its many clones. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
GameStop FOMO Inspires a New Wave of Crypto Pump-and-Dumps
Thousands of would-be investors are joining Discord groups that promise big earnings by manipulating the crypto market. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
DeepMind Wants to Use AI to Transform Soccer
The Alphabet-owned company is working with Liverpool to bring computer vision and statistical learning to the high-stakes world of sports. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
To Make These Chips More Powerful, IBM Is Growing Them Taller
The company reveals a process that it says can cram two-thirds more transistors on a semiconductor, heralding faster and more efficient electronic devices. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Black and Queer AI Groups Say They'll Spurn Google Funding
The move is the latest fallout following the departures of the heads of the company's ethical AI research team and a recruiter. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Twitter Group's Offer India a Covid-19 Lifeline
Hashtags have provided a kind of emergency hotline—but the need for mutual aid on social media is also a rebuke to the government. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
It Began As an AI-Fueled Dungeon Game. It Got Much Darker
The game touted its use of the GPT-3 text generator. Then the algorithm started to generate disturbing stories, including sex scenes involving children. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The One Legal Question That Will Probably Decide the Epic-Apple Lawsuit
It’s all about how you define the market. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Gummy Bears and Candy Bars Are Casualties of the Pandemic
Shopping online means fewer unplanned purchases. Manufacturers and retailers are testing tactics to bring impulse buying to the web. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Why Almost No One Is Getting the Fastest Form of 5G
A new report shows that US mobile customers are tapping into the technology’s speediest networks less than 1 percent of the time. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The WFH Exodus Creates an Opportunity for Small Cities
Workers from urban centers will continue to work from home, at least part-time. Officials and developers are planning the shops and services they'll want. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Ford's Ever-Smarter Robots Are Speeding Up the Assembly Line
A transmission factory shows how artificial intelligence may creep into industrial processes in gradual and often imperceptible ways. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
AI Helps Prove Two Scribes Wrote Text of a Dead Sea Scroll
Most scholars thought the Isaiah Scroll was copied by a single author. New handwriting analysis just revealed otherwise. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
This Researcher Says AI Is Neither Artificial nor Intelligent
Kate Crawford, who holds positions at USC and Microsoft, says in a new book that even experts working on the technology misunderstand AI. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Now for AI’s Latest Trick: Writing Computer Code
Programs such as GPT-3 can compose convincing text. Some people are using the tool to automate software development and hunt for bugs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Europe's Proposed Limits on AI Would Have Global Consequences
The EU released draft laws that would regulate facial recognition and uses of algorithms. If it passes, the policy will impact companies in the US and China. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Need an Angel Investor? Just Open Up Clubhouse
Consider it like Shark Tank on your phone: Every week on Angelhouse, founders make a pitch to a panel of investors as hundreds of people listen in. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Fatal Crash Renews Concerns Over Tesla’s ‘Autopilot’ Claim
The company offers a feature called “Full Self-Driving Capability.” But it remains far from a self-driving car. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Union Says Amazon Violated Labor Law in the Alabama Election
Amazon defeated the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union’s bid to represent workers at one warehouse. The union claims the company fought dirty. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
BMW’s Virtual Factory Uses AI to Hone the Assembly Line
The German automaker uses new software from chipmaker Nvidia to simulate train robots and human workers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Microsoft Makes a $16 Billion Entry Into Health Care AI
The company plans to buy Nuance, a speech-recognition firm that grasps the specialized language of medicine — tech that won’t be easy for others to replicate. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Is Silicon Valley Dead? Not According to Venture Dollars
In a record quarter for VC funding, California still takes the cake—further evidence that reports of the region’s demise are greatly exaggerated. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Coinbase Makes Its Debut—and Bitcoin Arrives on Wall Street
The largest cryptocurrency exchange goes public through a direct listing, and it could make a bigger debut than Facebook. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Antitrust and Privacy Are on a Collision Course
Facebook is being sued for weakening data protections. Google is being sued for strengthening them. Can that paradox be resolved? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
AI Comes to Car Repair, and Body Shop Owners Aren’t Happy
During the pandemic, insurers accelerated the use of automated tools to estimate repair costs. Garage operators say the numbers can be wildly inaccurate. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
New Vaccine Conspiracy Theories Are Going Viral in Arabic
Facebook has been criticized for failing to curb misinformation in English. But little attention has been paid to the scale of the problem in Arabic. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
This AI Could Help Wipe Out Colon Cancer
Medtronic's GI Genius, awaiting clearance from the FDA, will help doctors identify precancerous polyps. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Biden Announces His Broadband Plan—and ISPs Will Hate It
The $100 billion proposal will probably be met with fierce resistance by telecom companies, but there's a lot to like for internet users. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Serve Food in Far-Away Restaurants—Right From Your Couch
A growing number of robots are operated remotely, often by workers thousands of miles away. Could it be a job of the future? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
US Sanctions Are Squeezing Huawei, but for How Long?
Growth slowed last year at the tech giant, as it had trouble securing the most advanced chips. China's government has a plan to change that. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Silicon Valley Revs Up for a ‘Hot Startup’ Summer
“Now is the time to start stepping on the gas,” as one prominent VC firm put it to founders. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Groups Call for Ethical Guidelines on Location-Tracking Tech
The Locus Charter asks companies to commit to 10 principles, including minimizing data collection and actively seeking consent from users. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Biden Wants You Out of Your Car and on the Train
The president's $2 trillion infrastructure proposal boosts funding for buses and rail. It even envisions actually tearing down some freeways. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Foundations of AI Are Riddled With Errors
The labels attached to images used to train machine-vision systems are often wrong. That could mean bad decisions by self-driving cars and medical algorithms. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
One Startup’s Solution for Zoom Fatigue? The Walk and Talk
Spot is a new platform dedicated entirely to walking meetings, launched by a longtime remote work evangelist. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
This AI Can Generate Convincing Text—and Anyone Can Use It
The makers of Eleuther hope it will be an open source alternative to GPT-3, the well-known language program from OpenAI. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Negligence, Not Politics, Drives Most Misinformation Sharing
Researchers found that social media users are generally adept at identifying fake news. But that doesn’t always affect their decision to repost it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
AI Could Enable 'Swarm Warfare' for Tomorrow's Fighter Jets
A Pentagon project is testing scenarios involving multiple aircraft that could change the dynamics of air combat. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Where Are Those Shoes You Ordered? Check the Ocean Floor
More containers have fallen off ships in the past four months than are typically lost in a year. Blame heavy traffic and rolling waves. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A New WeWork Documentary Relives Its Roller Coaster Story
WeWork: Or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn is a good crash course while you wait for the adaptation starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
This Startup Wants to Take Your Blood Pressure With an iPhone
“Hey Siri, help me treat my hypertension." Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Researchers Blur Faces That Launched a Thousand Algorithms
Managers of the ImageNet data set paved the way for advances in deep learning. Now they’ve taken a big step to protect people’s privacy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
This Chip for AI Works Using Light, Not Electrons
Lightmatter says the computing and power demands of complex neural networks need new technologies like these to keep up. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Pandemic Prompts Cities to Rethink the Parking Spot
Some urban designers have long wanted to reduce the area set aside for cars. Covid is giving them a chance. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Who Are the Biggest Influencers on Clubhouse?
It's harder to figure out than you might expect. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices