Netflix is having a miserable year. The streaming giant shed 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2022 — its first loss in more than a decade — and dropped around 1 million more in quarter two. The company’s woes have sparked concerns that video streaming is dying, but research suggests that there’s plenty of life left in the sector. A May study by Hub Entertainment Research estimated that 89% of US consumers subscribed to one in streaming service in 2022 — an 11% increase on the previous year.
“Technology is a bridge between us all. Together we are European tech, united.” These were TNW CEO Myrthe van der Erve’s words during the opening ceremony of TNW Conference 2022. “Tech is evolving,” she says. “To stay ahead, we need to discover the next in tech, now.” Those words are more than idealism, and carry real urgency. We seem to be hopping from health to political to economic crisis. And there was a distinct feeling from attendees at TNW Conference that we need to anticipate change wherever possible, instead of the reactive position in which we currently find ourselves.
As we enter a new era defined by artificial intelligence and machine learning, the very foundation of many modern technologies is being put under a microscope by policymakers. That foundation? Data. Data is required for the refinement of most cutting-edge technology, and it will only become more important in future as we develop more sophisticated AI and ML models, fueled by richer, higher quality data sets. However, there are strict regulations around how data can be used, particularly within the EU. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mandates that businesses need consent to store subject data in order to preserve the privacy of its citizens online and offline.
This article contains spoilers for the 1973 film “Soylent Green.” It’s a hot AI summer out here for everyone who has even the slightest interest in putting the “art” in artificial intelligence. I’m talking about DALL-E 2 and OpenAI’s announcement that its incredible text-to-art generator would be entering a closed-beta. Most exciting of all: an additional one million people will gain access to DALL-E 2. Woohoo! Let’s do a cartwheel. Greetings, humanoids Subscribe to our newsletter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in your inbox. Up front:There would be no cartwheels in the Neural offices at TNW that day.
One of the biggest criticisms against EVs is that they’re not as green as you might think due to the CO2 emissions produced by their lithium-ion batteries. These occur during the extraction of lithium and during the battery’s manufacturing process. However, new research by Minviro, a company specialized in raw material life-cycle analysis, has found that an emerging battery technology can significantly reduce an EV’s carbon footprint: solid-state batteries. They promise to decrease battery emissions by almost two-fifths. Hi there, EV nerd! Subscribe now for a weekly recap of our favorite mobility stories
One of the world’s most popular social media platforms, TikTok, is now host to a steady stream of deepfake videos. Deepfakes are videos in which a subject’s face or body has been digitally altered to make them look like someone else – usually a famous person. One notable example is the @deeptomcriuse TikTok account, which has posted dozens of deepfake videos impersonating Tom Cruise and attracted some 3.6 million followers. Greetings, humanoids Subscribe to our newsletter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in your inbox. Deepfakes gained a lot of media attention last year, with videos impersonating Hollywood actor Tom Cruise going viral.
There’s a simple problem with driving an expensive car: you’re not always in it. Sometimes, there will be moments, awful, heart-wrenching moments where everyone in your vicinity won’t know that you own a vehicle that, objectively, makes you better than everyone else. Greetings, tech nerd! Are you into gadgets? And apps? And other cool tech stuff? Then this weekly newsletter is for you. But, friend, dry your leaking eyes moistening face. Because Mercedes-Benz has teamed up with Master & Dynamic to make several pairs of headphones that will finally to let people around you know how idiotic and disgusting and destitute they are.
IBM today announced a new strategy for the implementation of several “error mitigation” techniques designed to bring about the era of fault-tolerant quantum computers. Up front: Anyone still clinging to the notion that quantum circuits are too noisy for useful computing is about to be disillusioned. A decade ago, the idea of a working quantum computing system seemed far-fetched to most of us. Today, researchers around the world connect to IBM’s cloud-based quantum systems with such frequency that, according to IBM’s director of quantum infrastructure, some three billion quantum circuits are completed every day. Greetings, humanoids
It sure looks like a lot of fun when we see videos of astronauts floating around in zero-gravity environments. But did you ever stop to think what prolonged weightlessness does to the human body? We’ll spare you the details, but suffice to say it isn’t pretty. And that means any crewed missions to the Moon, Mars, or anywhere else beyond the Earth’s gravitational field have an undeniable time limit on them. Until we solve the whole gravity problem, permanent off-world colonies are pretty much a non-starter. Greetings, humanoids Subscribe to our newsletter now for a weekly recap of our favorite AI stories in your inbox.
