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5 Things about AI you may have missed today: IIT Kanpur takes AI to telemedicine, big boost for AI skills in China, more

AI roundup: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is currently on his Asia tour where he met LG Electronics executives in South Korea. The discussions included partnerships to expand mixed reality devices and AI development; in a move that has shocked the tech world, Apple makes AI a priority and abandons its plans for developing self-driving cars. Reports say many employees from the project will be shifted to the iPhone maker's artificial intelligence (AI) division. Mark Zuckerberg plans to develop mixed reality devices with LGToday, Mark Zuckerberg had a meeting with LG Electronics executives, CEO William Cho and parent company LG Corp COO Kwon Bong-seok in South Korea. The discussion was largely about building partnerships in expanding mixed reality devices. During the meeting, Cho expressed his...
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So Long, Apple Car, We’ll Never Know What We Missed

What could Apple have done with the humble automobile?Ideas, some credible and others less so, have dripped out for a decade. For a time, the company was rumored to be working on something small based on BMW's i3. Then it was said to actually be a van. With augmented reality, a new kind of battery and smart seat belts.  Reports suggested a desire to leapfrog Tesla and go straight to full self-driving — and it was granted permission to test its technology on California roads. It was looking at building charging infrastructure. So insatiable was the appetite for any news on the car, Apple watchers had started to pay attention to the kinds of vehicles bought by Apple executives to see whether there were any signs as to their tastes and the project's probable direction. My favorite report ...
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Apple’s most revolutionary product since the iPhone coming? It is so ‘Jobs-ian’, says Dediu

The rise of micromobility presents Apple with a chance to make its most revolutionary product since the iPhone. For seven years, Horace Dediu has been thinking about one idea almost every day. A longtime handset industry analyst and avid Apple follower, Dediu, 54, also popularized the term “micromobility” to describe a growing array of small, non-car electric vehicles. His obsession is at the intersection of all those interests: Dediu is convinced that Apple Inc. should make an e-bike, or something like it. “I fundamentally believe there's no better product for Apple in mobility than micromobility,” Dediu says. “It is so Apple, so Jobs-ian that it just smacks you in the face…Steve would have been all over this.” It's an open secret that Apple has spent nearly a decade working on...
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Apple’s Car Is Beloved Before It Even Exists

The brand ranked highly in a survey of new-vehicle owners released this week. If semiconductor shortages, recession risks and the once-a-century shift in propulsion weren't enough to keep auto executives up at night, here's one more sleep disruptor: Consumers are keen to buy an Apple car before one even exists. Strategic Vision just released the results of an annual study that this year reached 200,000 new-vehicle owners. For the first time, the consulting firm included Apple among the more than 45 brands it surveyed consumers about. The findings: 26% said they would “definitely consider” buying a set of wheels from the iPhone maker, behind only Toyota and Honda. And 24% ticked the top box (“I love it”) when asked their i...