Why you should want to pay for apps

To pay or not to pay, that’s been the question since the very first moments of the App Store. The question of whether or not to pay for software and exactly how much you should pay is far older than Apple’s App Store of course. The question stretches back to the early days of the BBS and shareware. But it’s become a hot topic yet again now that so many companies are looking for a way to consolidate customers into ‘app stores’....

11 min · 2264 words · Claudia Shepherd

Why you shouldn’t mistake AI for automation

Why you shouldn’t mistake AI for automation Building the pyramids Traditionally, there has been a pyramid model for technology withartificial intelligence(AI) sitting at the top. Below are the technological building blocks required as the platforms required for AI to function. Let’s first take at how this pyramid is formed.Digitization Starting from the bottom, the fundamental tech level is digitization. Without digitization, automation,machine learning, and ultimately AI aren’t even possible. Digitization is the process of conversion of non-digital, often analog data into digital storage....

4 min · 753 words · Charles Russo

Why you shouldn’t trust Tesla’s latest Full Self Driving beta update

Elon Musk had initially promised the fabled Full Self-Driving Beta version 9 back inAugust 2018. And then again in2019. Well, if you’re a Tesla fan, you already know that none of these commitments were fulfilled. So when, earlier this month, Musk swore on Twitter that the “FSD Beta 9 is shipping soon,” it came as a surprise that he actually held true to his word. Haha, FSD 9 beta is shipping soon, I swear!...

4 min · 729 words · Angelica Hall

Why your EV’s range matters less than you think

Why your EV’s range matters less than you think Range anxiety? What range anxiety? What is range anxiety? Range anxiety is the amped up worry or fear of something in the future that has not yet, and likely will not, come to pass. That specific something in this case is being stranded somewhere with a dead battery and a useless car. For the range-anxious, thoughts usually go something like this: “I’m going somewhere new....

4 min · 707 words · Anthony Key

Why your favorite gadgets are threatening the planet’s future

It’s safe to say that the human race is thriving. Between 1959 and 2009, the world’s population more than doubled from under three billion people to almost seven billion. While the rate of growth is expected to slow over the next four decades, Earth is expected to be home to over nine billion people by2050. That’s a lot of people for Mother Nature to manage. Space issues aside, the biggest concern on an over-populated planet is whether or not there will be enough resources to go around....

10 min · 1959 words · Denise Anderson
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