Published on: 2025-04-23 00:00:00
Heat Exchange MIT Technology Review’s guest opinion series, offering expert commentary on legal, political and regulatory issues related to climate change and clean energy. You can read the rest of the pieces here. The current 90-day pause on rolling out most of the administration’s so-called “reciprocal” tariffs presents a critical opportunity. Rather than defaulting to broad, blunt tariffs, the administration should use this window to align trade policy with a focused industrial strategy—one
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 21:48:19
BAN #447: Wait. HOW MANY supernova explode every year? 25 July 2022 Issue #447 Blog Jam [Of course I picked this one to highlight because the title made me laugh. From Tuesday’s article. Credit: S. Safi-Harb et al (2022)] Monday 18 July, 2022: How is Canada like Mars? Lost Hammer Spring shows us Friday 22 July, 2022: Blue blobs turn out to be orphan star clusters made of gas cast-off from galaxies Astro Tidbit A brief synopsis of some interesting astronomy/science news I recently wrote ab
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BAN #447: Wait. HOW MANY supernova explode every year? 25 July 2022 Issue #447 Blog Jam [Of course I picked this one to highlight because the title made me laugh. From Tuesday’s article. Credit: S. Safi-Harb et al (2022)] Monday 18 July, 2022: How is Canada like Mars? Lost Hammer Spring shows us Friday 22 July, 2022: Blue blobs turn out to be orphan star clusters made of gas cast-off from galaxies Astro Tidbit A brief synopsis of some interesting astronomy/science news I recently wrote ab
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-07 17:28:38
is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Amazon is showing off new AI technology this week, including its take on a more conversational voice model to better compete with things like Gemini Live and OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode and an update to its model that can generate video. The new Nova Sonic voice model handles real-time speech processing and AI voice generation for conversati
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is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Amazon is showing off new AI technology this week, including its take on a more conversational voice model to better compete with things like Gemini Live and OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode and an update to its model that can generate video. The new Nova Sonic voice model handles real-time speech processing and AI voice generation for conversati
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 18:00:00
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Amazon is best known as an e-commerce giant and then somewhere perhaps slightly further down the list of notable offerings is its Alexa AI voice assistant product, which just got a big intelligence upgrade last month thanks in part to Amazon Nova and Amazon’s investment Anthropic. Now Alexa will have to make space for a new Amazon voice AI sibling: today the company is
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 23:00:00
On Tuesday, Amazon debuted a new generative AI model, Nova Sonic, capable of natively processing voice and generating natural-sounding speech. Amazon claims that Sonic’s performance is competitive with frontier voice models from OpenAI and Google on benchmarks measuring speed, speech recognition, and conversational quality. Nova Sonic is Amazon’s answer to newer AI voice models such as the model powering ChatGPT’s Voice Mode, which feel more natural to speak with than the more rigid models from
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 23:08:41
Amazon has upgraded its AI video model, Nova Reel, with the ability to generate videos up to two minutes in length. Nova Reel, announced in December 2024, was Amazon’s first foray into the generative video space. It competes with models from OpenAI, Google, and others in what’s fast becoming a crowded market. The latest Nova Reel, Nova Reel 1.1, can generate “multi-shot” videos with “consistent style” across shots, explained AWS Developer Advocate Elizabeth Fuentes in a blog post. Users can pr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 18:53:48
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The sleeping giant has awoken! For a while, it seemed like Amazon was playing catchup in the race to offer its users — particularly the millions of developers building atop Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s cloud infrastructure — compelling first-party AI models and tools. But in late 2024, it debuted its own internal foundation model family, Amazon Nova, with text, image a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 11:33:00
Something to look forward to: Meta's love of smart glasses is set to continue with a new device codenamed Hypernova that sounds distinctly cyberpunky. The glasses will feature a tiny heads-up display integrated into one of the lenses, which partly explains why it will cost anywhere between $1,000 and $1,400. The Hypernova smart glasses will arrive later this year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, so we could see them unveiled at the Meta Connect conference scheduled to take place on Septem
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 19:43:05
Meta TL;DR Meta reportedly plans to launch high-end ‘Hypernova’ smart glasses with a display later this year. These smart glasses will be able to run built-in apps like maps, WhatsApp, and Messenger, and are expected to cost upwards of $1,000. ‘Ceres,’ a neural wristband bundled with the device, is said to enable gesture-based navigation. The Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses have been an unexpected success in a market where the likes of Apple and Samsung are pushing bulky, expensive headsets that lac
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 12:00:14
ZDNET's key takeaways The Withings Scanwatch Nova is available now, starting at $599. It's an elegant smartwatch with a one-month battery, water resistance up to 10ATM, and various health-tracking metrics. A $10/month subscription is required for some advanced metrics, and the watch is only available in one 42mm diameter. $618.78 at Amazon Healthy heart monitoring starts with gathering your metrics, but making sense of all the numbers is a whole different challenge. For the past few weeks, I'
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 19:43:33
is a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. He spent over 15 years in IT support before joining The Verge. Meta is reportedly preparing a higher-end version of its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with a built-in screen to launch as early as by the end of the year, Bloomberg reports. The new glasses, codenamed Hypernova, can run apps and display photos, all controlled using hand gestures and capacitive touch on the sides of the frame. Bloomberg reports
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 23:15:31
Meta’s next step on its quest to reign over the burgeoning market for AR glasses may demand a hefty chunk of your wallet. The Mark Zuckerberg-led company is reportedly planning for new glasses, codenamed “Hypernova,” that could cost well over $1,000 for the sake of a tiny heads-up-display built into one lens. Yes, that’s expensive, but Meta’s real struggle will be making sure it runs on software that doesn’t make us want to throw its expensive glasses off a cliff. The rumored Hypernova augmente
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 03:19:00
Unlike the Meta Ray-Bans, the Xreal One Pro features display projections for digital overlays. Kerry Wan/ZDNET The Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses have been one of the more successful gadgets in recent years for breaking into a competitive wearable market and carving out their place. If CES in January was any indication of what we'll see in the rest of 2025, expect more people walking, working, and lounging around with smart glasses on. Also: CES 2025: The 8 most advanced smart glasses we tried - a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 20:00:00
Ampler made one of the first modern e-bikes I ever tested, and now it’s selling the first commercial electric bikes — the Nova and Nova Pro — I’m aware of that can be charged over a USB-C port integrated right into the frame. Hell, that same jack will even charge your gadgets in a pinch, but not in the US because this e-bike is for Europe only. Estonia-based Ampler is best known for making reliable direct-to-consumer e-bikes from its home in Tallinn using decent, mostly off-the-shelf parts that
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 03:01:47
Amazon has launched a new AI model, Nova Act, which is designed to perform tasks — like online shopping — in your browser. For now it’s only available to developers in a “research preview,” but Amazon is also expanding access to its other Nova AI models through a web portal, making them easier to find and use. Nova Act is a new model whose function sounds similar to OpenAI’s Operator agent. Amazon says Act can carry out web searches, make purchases, or answer questions about what’s on the scree
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 15:00:18
Amazon is still seen as a bit of a laggard in the race to develop advanced artificial intelligence, but it has quietly created a lab that is now setting records when it comes to AI performance. Amazon’s AGI SF Lab, which is located in San Francisco and dedicated to building artificial general intelligence, or AI that surpasses the capabilities of humans, revealed the first fruits of its work today: A new AI model capable of powering some of the most advanced AI agents available anywhere. The ne
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 20:00:00
Amazon on Monday unveiled Nova Act, a general-purpose AI agent that can take control of a web browser and independently perform some simple actions. Alongside the new agentic AI model, Amazon is releasing the Nova Act SDK, a toolkit that allows developers to build agent prototypes with Nova Act. Nova Act, developed by Amazon’s recently opened San Francisco-based AGI lab, will also power key features of the company’s upcoming Alexa+ upgrade, a generative AI-enhanced version of Amazon’s popular v
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 11:11:42
Keep your eyes peeled, because a dim star is about to quite literally go nuclear. And guess what? Its outburst will be visible to the naked eye, providing a once in a lifetime opportunity to witness a rare stellar explosion known as a nova. The star, T Coronae Borealis, is believed to erupt roughly every 80 years. After closely monitoring its activity, astronomer Jean Schneider at the Paris Observatory has calculated that it'll erupt again this Thursday, March 27, according to a paper he publis
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-27 03:47:53
Astronomers have been watching a small constellation in the night sky, waiting for a nearby binary star system to explode. The wait may finally be over: A numerical estimate predicts the rare nova eruption could happen on Thursday, March 27. T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the Blaze Star, is a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. It periodically explodes in a recurring nova every 79 years or so, and it’s due for an impending eruption. The Blaze Star has spent the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 14:11:42
Keep your eyes peeled, because a dim star is about to quite literally go nuclear. And guess what? Its outburst will be visible to the naked eye, providing a once in a lifetime opportunity to witness a rare stellar explosion known as a nova. The star, T Coronae Borealis, is believed to erupt roughly every 80 years. After closely monitoring its activity, astronomer Jean Schneider at the Paris Observatory has calculated that it'll erupt again this Thursday, March 27, according to a paper he publis
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-30 22:35:53
Astronomers have been watching a small constellation in the night sky, waiting for a nearby binary star system to explode. The wait may finally be over: A numerical estimate predicts the rare nova eruption could happen on Thursday, March 27. T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the Blaze Star, is a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. It periodically explodes in a recurring nova every 79 years or so, and it’s due for an impending eruption. The Blaze Star has spent the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 22:45:00
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As tech giants declare their AI releases open — and even put the word in their names — the once insider term “open source” has burst into the modern zeitgeist. During this precarious time in which one company’s misstep could set back the public’s comfort with AI by a decade or more, the concepts of openness and transparency are being wielded haphazardly, and sometimes d
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ZDNET's key takeaways The Withings Scanwatch Nova is available for pre-order now, starting at $599. It's an elegant smartwatch with a one-month battery, water resistance up to 10ATM, and various health-tracking metrics. A $10/month subscription is required for some advanced metrics, and the watch is only available in one 42mm diameter. $624.71 at Amazon Healthy heart monitoring starts with gathering your metrics, but making sense of all the numbers is a whole different challenge. For the past
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-30 05:50:40
Step up your game by hooking yourself up with some proper audio. If you’re used to just listening to your video games through the built-in speakers on your TV, you’re about to have your mind blown. Switching from that to an over-the-ear headset would be the equivalent of not realizing your whole life that you needed glasses until you finally put them on. You can hear the pitter patter of enemy footsteps in a 3D sound space, able to clock their exact position from sound alone. And lucky for you,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 16:29:20
Solar installer Sunnova issued a “going concern” warning as the company runs short on cash. The stock is currently down around 68% as investors gauge the risk that Sunnova is headed for bankruptcy, a frequent outcome for companies that issue such warnings. In a bid to stave off insolvency, Sunnova said Monday it is planning to refinance debt, raise new debt, and cut expenses. Houston-based Sunnova is one of the largest solar installers in the U.S., bringing in $840 million in revenue last year
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 13:00:19
ZDNET's key takeaways The Withings Scanwatch Nova is available for pre-order now, starting at $599. It's an elegant smartwatch with a one-month battery, water resistance up to 10ATM, and various health-tracking metrics. A $10/month subscription is required for some advanced metrics, and the watch is only available in one 42mm diameter. $616.04 at Amazon Healthy heart monitoring starts with gathering your metrics, but making sense out of all the numbers is a whole different challenge. For the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 21:26:00
6.5 Sunnova Buy at Sunnova Like 25-year service guarantee 25-year service guarantee Lots of financing options Lots of financing options Customer-centered approach Don't like No price match No price match Possible customer service concerns per the BBB Editor's Note: In 2025, Sunnova became the latest victim of the solar coaster: the famous ups and downs that buffet the solar industry. In February, the company shed 300 positions, or more than 15% of its workforce. In March, it released a repor
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Another day, another big solar installer faces bankruptcy. This time, the latest company to face the "solar coaster" is Sunnova Energy International, which is looking down the barrel at a cash flow that's insufficient to meet its obligations and fund operations. "While total cash increased, unrestricted cash remained relatively flat, below our estimated $100 million increase," said John Berger, Sunnova's founder and CEO. "This miss was primarily due to lower tax equity contributions stemming fr
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