How Polestar is using blockchain to increase transparency Polestar looks at blockchain to validate ethical production of its batteries Tracing cobalt on the blockchain Polestar, a recent EV launch, was the first car to announce the use of blockchain to trace cobalt in its batteries, according to Polestar’s Head of Sustainability Frederika Klarén. You might have heard about blockchain in the context of cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin. But blockchain’s uses can extend far beyond digital currency and into the realm of sustainable supply chain management....

You try to use your credit card, but it doesn’t work. In fact, no one’s credit card works. You try to go to some news sites to find out why, but you can’t access any of those, either. Neither can anyone else. Panic-buying ensues. People empty ATMs of cash. This kind of catastrophic pan-internet meltdown is more likely than most people realize. I direct theInternet Atlas Projectat the University of California, Berkeley....

We’re three and a half years away from electing another president here in the US, but it’s never to early too prepare ourselves for the impending crapshow that is US politics. The good news is, going forward, you won’t have to think so much. The age of data-based politics is coming to a close thanks to the innovations created by the2016 Donald Trump campaignand thecounteracting tacticsemployed by the Biden team in 2020....

Fashion by its very definition is something that’s constantly changing. And changing is something 24-year old blogger Poppy Dinsey knows all about. Poppy set upWhat I Wore Today(WIWT) back on January 1st 2010, and it has always been a blog with a simple underlying premise: Upload and share one photo each day of Poppy in a different outfit. Interesting idea…but why? With a new year underway, Poppy pondered whether she could create a photo diary of herself in a different combination of clothes for the next 365 days....

How PR people should (not) pitch AI projects First, educate yourself As I see it, one of the main problems in AI pitches is that the people writing them often don’t have a full understanding of the technology. If you’re a PR agent writing a pitch on behalf of a client, you should have more than a basic understanding of how their technology works. Likewise, if you’re a reporter who is covering AI, you should have more than a passing knowledge of different AI trends and be able to pose the right questions when receiving a pitch....