Dear Venture Capitalists, you can help save the world — by investing in carbon neutral startups

Did you know SHIFT istaking the stage on Sept 30 and Oct 1? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will explore the future of mobility during TNW Conference 2021.Secure your ticket now! Technology is evolving faster than ever before. It creates the opportunity for new products, business models, and bringing products more quickly to market. But what does it mean for industries such as mobility and energy? I spoke to Girish Nadkarni, the CEO ofTotalEnergies Ventures, to find out....

5 min · 862 words · Sabrina Webster

Dear websites, please stop asking me to download your mobile app

Dear insert website name, Please stop asking me to your mobile app. I don’t want want to use it. I don’t care if you think your app is the bee’s knees. If I wanted to use your app, I’d go to the app store and download said app. But I didn’t do that. Instead, I’m writing this article to state the obvious. I prefer to access your service within the comfort of a browser, thank-you-very-much....

3 min · 475 words · Margaret Harris

Debt Disruption: Are you “Ready for Zero”?

Credit card issuers made 40 billion dollars in credit card profits last quarter alone. Two-thirds of that was from interest. Meanwhile, one-third of America is in credit card debt, which means approximately 100 million people are weighed down with revolving debt. These facts are not only depressing, but crippling to our national economy. “My girlfriend came out of grad school with $24,000 in credit card debt. We were poking around figuring out what her options were for the first month or two before she found a job....

7 min · 1318 words · Regina Allen

Debunking the mysteries of deep reinforcement learning

Deep reinforcement learning is one of the most interesting branches ofartificial intelligence. It is behind some of the most remarkable achievements of the AI community, includingbeating human champions at board and video games, self-driving cars, robotics, andAI hardware design. Deep reinforcement learning leverages the learning capacity of deep neural networks to tackle problems that were too complex for classic RL techniques.Deep reinforcement learningis much more complicated than the other branches of machine learning....

10 min · 2071 words · George Logan

Decisions, decisions. Consumers favor iPad over Kindle by 2 to 1 Margin says Hitwise

When it comes to gadget battles, the iPad is the hands-down winner in a matchup against Amazon’s Kindle reader.Hitwise Intelligence, the online research arm of credit rating agencyExperian, says that the iPad is two times more popular than the Kindle based on Internet search volume. Both Kindle and iPad saw a 40% increase in searches in the busy post-Christmas period around Boxing Day and 27 December 2010. Searches for iPads also increased dramatically in the first week of March 2011 when the iPad 2 was launched....

2 min · 426 words · Derek Rosales
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