Lexus is apparently working on a “virtual” manual transmission, reports the Verge, “to find out if the stick shift can survive the electric revolution…” British car enthusiast publication Evo reported this week that Lexus, which now leads Toyota’s high-performance EV efforts, is developing a kind of shifting system that mimics Read more…
This week the Atlantic published its list of “the 10 Most Promising Breakthrough Innovations of 2022.” “We didn’t just get one ‘unheard-of’ cancer breakthrough; we got several in one year….” Is death reversible? It was this year for several pigs (or, at least, for their organs). By pumping an experimental Read more…
Fini le serment au roi au Québec. Glad to see this during my lifetime.
DeepMind’s new artificial intelligence system called AlphaCode was able to “achieve approximately human-level performance” in a programming competition. The findings have been published in the journal Science. AlphaCode’s creators focused on solving those difficult problems. Like the Codex researchers, they started by feeding a large language model many gigabytes of Read more…
Electric vehicle drivers in Marshfield, Wisconsin, and Owosso, Michigan, are the first to benefit from General Motors’ Dealer Community Charging Program. These deployments of new level 2 (AC) chargers are the first in a planned rollout of 40,000 new plug-in points, which GM says will nearly double the number of Read more…
People in Europe can get Google to delete search results about them if they prove the information is “manifestly inaccurate,” the EU’s top court has ruled. The case kicked off when two investment managers requested Google to dereference results of a search made on the basis of their names, which Read more…
Colgate-Palmolive spent years devising a recyclable toothpaste tube. Pulling it off was a technical masterstroke, substituting plastic for a mix of materials that was historically tough to reclaim. The result, one executive said, was “nice squeezability.” One big problem remains: Many sorting centers around the US don’t accept them. The Read more…