Author: bigboss
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Grid-connected energy storage exceeds one gigawatt
1. Large-scale battery energy storage projects and Turlough Hill pumped hydro energy storage support renewables in Ireland’s electricity system 2. ESB Networks and EirGrid manage energy storage facilities connected to the grid 3. Ireland’s electricity demand is growing, with data centres playing a significant role, driving the need for long duration energy storage projects Large-scale…
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Physical education instructor taken into custody for utilizing artificial intelligence to mimic principal’s voice
1. Baltimore high school athletic director arrested for creating fake AI audio clip of principal making racist comments which led to backlash and investigation. 2. Experts determine audio clip was AI fake due to inconsistencies, former athletic director allegedly created clip in retaliation for financial investigation, arrested and charged with multiple crimes. 3. Lack of…
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IEA Reports Global Battery-Led Storage Deployments to Increase Sixfold
– Despite cost cuts and increased deployment in the power sector, batteries need a sixfold increase in global energy storage to meet 2030 targets – Battery deployment in the power sector and electric vehicle sales have surged in recent years, with significant growth expected in the coming years – Battery manufacturing has tripled in the…
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Parloa, an AI platform for customer service, secures $66M in funding
1. Parloa, a conversational AI platform, has raised $66 million in a Series B round after previously receiving $21 million in funding to support its international growth. 2. The company is focused on the U.S. market and has attracted several Fortune 200 companies as customers, with a strong emphasis on “voice first” customer interactions. 3.…
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Collaboration between Iberdrola and Norges Bank to boost renewable energy projects in Iberia
– Iberdrola and Norway’s sovereign wealth fund have agreed to add an extra 644 MW of renewable energy in Spain to their Iberian clean energy alliance – These additional projects will be solar photovoltaics in Extremadura and Castilla y León – The renewable portfolio will have the capacity to supply energy to more than 400,000…
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Idefics2 vision-language model released by Hugging Face
1. Hugging Face releases Idefics2, a versatile model capable of understanding and generating text responses based on images and texts. 2. Idefics2 surpasses its predecessor with eight billion parameters and enhanced Optical Character Recognition capabilities, competing with larger models in visual question answering benchmarks. 3. Idefics2 integrates with Transformers, offers fine-tuning models on the Hugging…
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What is the reason behind PBS spreading misinformation about electric vehicles?
1. Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email or follow on Google News. 2. PBS Terra YouTube Channel’s video criticizes individual actions for climate change and promotes anti-EV FUD. 3. The videos may be spreading FUD to push a narrative against individual action and to support political expediencies. There is a disturbing…
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Police: Woman Tricks Out of $400,000 by Thieves in Sweepstakes Scam
– Scammers tricked an elderly woman with dementia in Florida into sending them $477,000 by pretending she won $3 million in a Publisher’s Clearing House sweepstakes – Police arrested Michael Lawrence and Max Richards in connection to the scam, recovering only around $40,000 of the stolen money – Lawrence and Richards face felony charges of…
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Ørsted introduces Greater Changhua offshore wind farms in Taiwan
– Ørsted inaugurated the 900MW Greater Changhua 1 and 2a offshore wind farms in Taiwan – The installations doubled Taiwan’s offshore wind power generation capabilities – The event was attended by Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen, marking a significant milestone in the country’s energy transition efforts Danish renewable energy company Ørsted has officially completed the inauguration…
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Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival xAI is nearing $6B in funding and his social network X is already a shareholder
1. xAI is raising $6 billion at an $18 billion pre-money valuation with investors including Sequoia Capital and Future Ventures. 2. Musk plans to use data from his companies like Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink to connect the digital and physical worlds through xAI. 3. xAI’s growth may benefit Musk’s social media platform X, while potentially…