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AI progress explained in 11 milestones, from 1950 to today

26 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

AI is the first and primary bullet point of any conversation. From cars to smartphones, everything seems to begin and end with AI today. But how did we get here? Starting from 1950, let's have a look at 11 key AI milestones. 1950 - The Turing Test...

Is this the next job to become obsolete?

24 Mar 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

In the olden days, if you wanted to film anything from above, you needed to hire a chopper. This meant paying a lot of salaries, including for two people whose labour didn't come cheap, i.e., the cameraman and the helicopter pilot. On top of that,...

The man who's got it all figured out

4 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

You may have never heard of him but Peter Rawlinson is a man who's clearly got it all figured out. Rawlinson is the former CEO of Lucid, an EV startup turned public company that's been rivaling (more or less) Tesla and other EV brands. In 2022, Raw...

This tech company used a robot for its new product's unboxing video

2 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Nothing Inc., a company that clearly does excellent marketing, partnered up with 1X Technologies, a robotics company, for an unboxing video for the upcoming Phone (3a). In the clip, which lasts a few seconds, we can see the company's robot, called N...

End of era: Microsoft to shut down Skype

1 Mar 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Skype was created in 2003 as a telecommunications application designed specifically for video calls. It was basically Zoom and Teams before Zoom and Teams. It's been around forever, and it's been sold twice. First in 2005 by eBay for $2.6 billion,...

Nothing's new phone to debut soon

22 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Nothing is about to launch a new phone, called Phone (3a) - and yep they spell it in brackets. I don't know anything about it apart from three things. First, based on the only teaser image they've provided, it looks like it's going to look like (pa...

Nissan wants to integrate DeepSeek into its cars

14 Feb 2025 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

Nissan's Chinese division, Dongfeng Nissan, wants to start integrating DeepSeek into its cars. When I say its 'cars', I mean car, singular, because Nissan's joint venture with Dongfeng for China is only making one car, for now, and that's the N7. A...

Gulf of Mexico renamed 'Gulf of America' on Google and Apple Maps

12 Feb 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

The Gulf of Mexico has already been renamed Gulf of America both on Google Maps and Apple Maps in order to adhere to Donald Trump's executive order 14172. Hardly surprising, considering they're both American companies, although I should point out th...

DeepSeek is already being integrated in electric cars

12 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Two Chinese automakers, Geely and Voyah, are already integrating DeepSeek in some of their models. DeepSeek, a potential ChatGPT rival that everybody says is awesome, took the world by storm over the last few weeks, and obviously the main purpose of...

Elon Musk wants to buy OpenAI, but his offer put Sam Altman on the spot

11 Feb 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

A consortium led by Elon Musk offered to buy OpenAI for $94.7 billion. Sam Altman already addressed the offer, but the truth is this offer put him on the spot a bit. Altman is currently trying to transition from non-profit to for-profit, and he's g...