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Poll: Would You Want to Work a Shorter Week?

Cars That Think

Iceland ran a pilot between 2015 and 2019, and this year it said the program was an overwhelming success, the BBC reported. Other countries that are trying out a shortened workweek include Australia, Japan, Scotland, and Spain, according to World Population Review.

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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

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In a December 2019 Wired magazine interview, Jerome Pesenti, Facebook's Vice President of AI, suggested that even for a company with pockets as deep as Facebook's, this would be financially unsustainable: When you scale deep learning, it tends to behave better and to be able to solve a broader task in a better way.

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

Cars That Think

To underscore how safe the system was, the host of the BBC science program “ Bang Goes the Theory ” stuck his face fully into a power beam. During a 2019 demonstration at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Bethesda, Md., That’s exactly what a team I was part of did in 2019, and we’ve successfully extended this work since then.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

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During a House Financial Services Committee hearing in October 2019, Representative Maxine Waters D-Calif.) Netflix is AWS’s largest customer. Not far behind, in terms of monthly spending, are Twitch and LinkedIn. These companies had two main concerns.

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

Tarun started EV Gyan in 2019, when he was in the process of researching EVs. I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. Quite happy with that. Saves him three hours a day in travel. Also reduces overheads for the company. Maybe this is going to be the future of the BPO industry. He himself was in the market for one.

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