Franklin D. Roosevelt (January30, 1882 April12, 1945) was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death. He was the longest-serving U.S. president and the only one to serve more than two terms in office. His first two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth saw him shift his focus to America's involvement in World WarII. This official photographic portrait of Roosevelt was taken in Hyde Park, New York, for his 1944 presidential election campaign.Photograph credit: Leon A. PerskieRecently featured: The Duchess of DantzicPtychochromis insolitusParis Peace AccordsArchiveMore featured pictures

January 30: Martyrs' Day in India (1948); Fred Korematsu Day in parts of the United StatesLaunch of USSMonitor1018 HenryII, Holy Roman Emperor, and BolesawI, the Piast ruler of Poland, signed the Peace of Bautzen to end the GermanPolish War.1607 Low-lying areas flooded around the coasts of the Bristol Channel in southwest England and south Wales, resulting in around 2,000 deaths.1862 The United States Navy launched USSMonitor (pictured), the first American ironclad warship.1964 In a bloodless coup, Nguyn Khnh overthrew Dng Vn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam, less than three months after Minh's own coup.2005 Forty-six years to the day after the sinking of the Danish ocean liner MSHans Hedtoft, Queen MargretheII unveiled a memorial in Copenhagen to the 95 passengers and crew who perished.Lady Anne Clifford (b.1590)Barbara La Marr (d.1926)Professor Longhair (d.1980)Tyla (b.2002)More anniversaries: January 29January 30January 31ArchiveBy emailList of days of the yearAbout

French President Emmanuel Macron announced the move this week. Bertrand Guay / Pool / AFP via Getty ImagesLast spring, the worldsmost-visited art museum, the Louvre in Paris,proposed moving its most popular artworkLeonardo da VincisMona Lisato its own subterranean room. Now, that idea is becoming reality.As French President Emmanuel Macron announced this week, speaking in front of Leonardos iconic 16th-century portrait in the museumsSalle des tats gallery, the move comes amidst a large-scale expansion and renovation of the museum.The Louvre will be redesigned and restored to become the epicenter of art history for our country and beyond, Macron told reporters, per theNew York Times Aurelien Breeden. The renovations are intended to alleviate overcrowding at the museumwhich is flooded with almostnine million visitors each year.The museum will gain several new exhibition spaces, including one beneath its easternmost courtyard, theCour Carre. This room will host the Mona Lisa, and visitors will be able to purchase a special ticket to enter it. Currently, the portrait receives as many as 25,000 daily visitors, each getting less than a minute to view it. TheMona Lisais currently housed in the Louvre'sSalle des tats gallery. Stefan Wloch via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0Every day, this very room is the scene of intense agitation, Laurence des Cars, the Louvres director, said at the press conference, according to theWashington Posts Ellen Francis. Exceptional visitor numbers are not a curse, theyre a source of pride. Its also a challenge to reinvent ourselves and remain faithful to our public service mission.The announcement comes just a week after the publication of a leaked memo written by des Cars, in which she calls visiting the Louvre a physical ordeal.Accessing the artworks takes time and is not always easy, des Cars wrote, per theGuardians Ashifa Kassam. Visitors have no space to take a break. The food options and restroom facilities are insufficient in volume, falling below international standards. The signage needs to be completely redesigned.The renovation will also include the installation of a new entrance on the Louvres east side near the Seine River to spread out guests. Expected to be finished in 2031, the project could cost hundreds of millions of dollars, per the Washington Post. Macron said that it will be paid for by donations,license royalties and ticketing revenue. The Louvre was a defensive fortress then a royal residence before becoming a museum. Mika Volkmann / Getty ImagesBuilt in the late12th century under the French kingPhilip II, the Louvre began as a royal fortress. During the 16th century, Francis I demolished the old fortress andrebuilt it as a Renaissance-style palace. The building housed royalty until the 1600s, when Louis XIV built a new residence for monarchs, thePalace of Versailles. In the late 18th century, the old palace became a public art museumlater dubbed the Louvre.The palatial buildings last large renovation happened in the 1980s, per the Washington Post. It included the installation of architectI.M. Peis glasspyramid, which stands over the museums current entrance. At that time, the museum welcomed about four million visitors each year. The new eastern entrance will be designed by the winner of an international competition to be held this year.As Julien Lacaze, president of the French heritage protection associationSites & Monuments, tells the Times, the Louvre needs to direct the flow of visitors more effectively and improve the promotion of its massive collection. (The Louvre owns some 500,000 artworks, 30,000 of which are on display.)Its the biggest museum in the world, Lecaze adds, but tourists only come to see five works of art.Get the latest stories in your inbox every weekday.Filed Under: Art, Arts, European History, European Travel, France, France Travel, History, Leonardo Da Vinci, Museums, Painters, Painting, Renovation and Restoration, Travel

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Learn MoreIn an important and helpful update issued today, the U.S. Copyright Office which administers copyright protections from the government to human-authored works such as films, TV shows, novels, art, music, even software clarified that some forms of AI generated content can, in fact, receive copyright protection, provided that a human substantially contributed or changed the content in question.The clarity came in a new document, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability (a PDF is embedded below), the second portion of a report that was initially released in July 2024.Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-ReportDownloadIt confirms that human creativity remains central to copyright law and intellectual property rights, even as AI tools become more widely used in artistic and commercial creation.But it should also give enterprises in particular reassurance that their brands and intellectual property will remain protected even when they integrate distinctive products and brand marks into AI generated media, such as Coca Colas controversial AI holiday commercial released late last year.It marks something of an about-face for the Copyright Office, after it issued, then in early 2023 rescinded a copyright protection to Kris Kashtanova, an artist and AI Evangelist for Adobe, on her graphic novel Zarya of the Dawn, who created the images using AI image generator Midjourney (which VentureBeat also uses, including for this article header). Reacting to todays news, Kashtanova wrote on the social network X:Two years ago I started advocating for copyright in AI. It was first Zarya of the Dawn and then Rose Enigma I did for this. Its a small step forward and I am so happy today. AI work can be copyrighted. Your work matters. AI are tools for creativity (not replacement of it).The Copyright Office also said a third section of this same report will be issued in the future that will address legal implications of training AI on copyrighted material, including licensing and liability. That third section should be a big deal for AI image, video, and music generating companies, not to mention large language model providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and numerous others as they are all said to have trained on vast quantities of copyrighted material without express permission and are currently facing various lawsuits from human creators as a result.What qualifies for copyright in the AI generated era of contentThe report reaffirms the longstanding principle that copyright applies only to human creativity. While AI can serve as a tool in the creative process, its outputs are not copyrightable unless a human author has exercised sufficient creative control. The Copyright Office outlines three key scenarios where AI-generated material can apply for, and receive, an official certificate of copyright from the office:When human-authored content is incorporated into the AI output. When a human significantly modifies or arranges the AI-generated material.When the human contribution is sufficiently expressive and creative.In addition, the Copyright Office makes clear that using AI in the creative process does not disqualify a work from copyright protection. AI can assist with:Editing and refining text, images, or music.Generating drafts or preliminary ideas for human creators to shape.Acting as a creative assistant while the human determines the final expression.As long as human authorship remains a core part of the final work, copyright protection can still applyHowever, merely providing text prompts to an AI system is not enough to establish authorship. The Copyright Office determined that prompts are generally instructions or ideas rather than expressive contributions, which are required for copyright protection.Thus, an image generated with a text-to-image AI service such as Midjourney or OpenAIs DALL-E 3 (via ChatGPT), on its own could not qualify for copyright protection. However, if the image was used in conjunction with a human-authored or human-edited article (such as this one), then it would seem to qualify.Similarly, for those looking to use AI video generation tools such as Runway, Pika, Luma, Hailuo, Kling, OpenAI Sora, Google Veo 2, or others, simply generating a video clip based on a description would not qualify for copyright. Yet a human editing together multiple AI generated video clips into a new whole would seem to qualify.The report also clarifies that using AI in the creative process does not disqualify a work from copyright protection. If an AI tool assists an artist, writer, or musician in refining their work, the human-created elements remain eligible for copyright. This aligns with historical precedents, where copyright law has adapted to new technologies such as photography, film, and digital media.No legislative changes recommendedAfter analyzing public feedbackincluding over 10,000 comments from creators, legal experts, and technology companiesthe Copyright Office found no immediate need for new legislation, stating that the current laws around copyright in the U.S. should stand the test of time.While some had called for additional protections for AI-generated content, the report states that existing copyright law is sufficient to handle these issues. The Office did, however, acknowledge that it will continue monitoring technological developments and legal interpretations to determine if future changes are warranted.Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office, emphasized the importance of human creativity in the copyright system:After considering the extensive public comments and the current state of technological development, our conclusions turn on the centrality of human creativity to copyright. Where that creativity is expressed through the use of AI systems, it continues to enjoy protection. Extending protection to material whose expressive elements are determined by a machine, however, would undermine rather than further the constitutional goals of copyright.Additionally, the Copyright Office plans to update its official Compendium of Copyright Practices to provide clearer guidelines for creators using AI tools.AI creators celebrate the newsAs news of the Copyright Offices new document spread across social media, particularly on X, the unofficial nexus of AI research sharing and news updates, AI filmmakers and creatives applauded the move welcoming the opportunity to receive copyright protections on their work even in the face of a vocal contingent of human critics and anti-AI artists.This is a huge victory for A.I. Filmmakers across the world, wrote the filmmaker Nem Perez, one of the creators of the AI generated Terminator 2 remake, in a post on X. The Copyright Office has officially declared what Ive been preaching for so long. Work that has been manipulated and transformed by humans is indeed copyrightable, even if the tools used were rooted in A.I. . This is a big step in the right direction. Lets move forward & continue breaking boundaries.3D animator Robert William Bradshaw shared a similar sentiment in an X post, writing: This marks a historic victory for creators, solidifying the legitimacy of AI-assisted artistry and innovation. The doors have officially opened for artists, writers, filmmakers, and visionaries leveraging AI to protect and own their creative works. This is a monumental step toward securing intellectual property rights in the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence.The future of copyright in the AI eraWhile this report confirms that AI can be used in copyrightable works, the debate over AI authorship is far from over. Courts and policymakers may still face challenges as AI models advance, and future clarifications or legislative updates may be necessary.For now, the key takeaway is simple: AI can be a tool for creative works, but human authorship is still required to claim copyright.Daily insights on business use cases with VB DailyIf you want to impress your boss, VB Daily has you covered. We give you the inside scoop on what companies are doing with generative AI, from regulatory shifts to practical deployments, so you can share insights for maximum ROI.Read our Privacy PolicyThanks for subscribing. Check out more VB newsletters here.An error occured.

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The state of electric vehicle charging in North America is shaping up like the smartphone charging wars but focused on much more expensive hardware. Right now, like USB-C and Android phones, the Combined Charging System (CCS, Type 1) plug is on a greater variety of cars. Meanwhile, Teslas plug was long compared to Apple and Lightning.But while Apple eventually adopted USB-C, Tesla is opening up its connector, renaming it the North American Charging Standard (NACS), and trying to shove CCS out of the way.And its working: the new NACS port is being standardized by SAE International, and today, largely every automaker, including Ford, GM, Toyota, Rivian, Volvo, Polestar, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar Land Rover, Fisker, Hyundai, Stellantis, Volkswagen, and BMW, has signed on. New cars equipped with NACS are on the way but likely wont start rolling out until 2026.Meanwhile, Europe already dealt with its standards issue by settling on CCS2. For now, EV drivers in their Tesla Model Ys, Kia EV6s, and Nissan Leafs (with the ailing CHAdeMO connector) in the US are still stuck looking for the right station or adapter and hoping everythings operational but things should get easier soon.To help solve these issues, the federal government has established a pool of $7.5 billion to fund charging network operators in building reliable EV infrastructure.North America can become a great and convenient place to own an electric vehicle, but how long will that take? You can find out by reading all the news about electric vehicle charging right here, so come back and plug in often.Today, 16 seconds agoUmar ShakirKia EVs will get Tesla Supercharger access in MarchImage: Tim Stevens for The VergeKias electric vehicles will get Tesla Supercharger access sometime in March 2025, the company announced in a statement. Kia EVs, including the EV6 and EV9, were scheduled to get Supercharger access in January using NACS to CCS1 adapters, but that has been delayed.Kias sister company, Hyundai, is beginning to ship new 2025 model year Ioniq 5 EVs with native NACS ports that match the ones on Teslas, and its models with older CCS1 ports can already plug into Supercharger stations using an adapter. However, Kia dealerships are now receiving NACS adapters meant to be free to EV6 and EV9 owners who purchased the new vehicles on or after September 4th, 2024. Kia also says owners can buy the adapter from dealers.Read Article >Jan 28Umar ShakirTesla Cybertrucks get faster charging at V4 Supercharger stalls.If you can find them, that is. While there arent a lot of new V4 posts out there yet, theyre supposed to support up to 500kW of fast charging once Tesla upgrades the on-site cabinets. For now, locations with the newly-designed stalls will support 325kW charging for Cybertrucks. Electrek notes that Elon Musk once suggested V3 would be capable of more than 350kW.Jan 28Andrew J. HawkinsLucid Gravity has a unique rear motor to help maximize EV chargingImage: LucidLucid started delivering the Gravity SUV to customers late last year but waited until now to reveal an interesting quirk about the new luxury EV that it says can help make charging better than ever before.When it was first announced, Lucid said that the 450-mile, $94,950 Gravity SUV would come with an incredible 926-volt architecture, making it one of the few vehicles on the market to exceed the 900-volt Lucid Air or fast-charging 800-volt systems found in many Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis vehicles. That architecture allows Gravity owners to add up to 200 miles of range after just 12 minutes of charging provided you have access to the right charger.Read Article >Jan 16Umar ShakirChargePoint is doing something about all the EV charger cable-cutting crooksPhoto by Andrew Liptak / The VergeChargePoint has had enough of vandalizing thieves who saw through EV charger cables to steal valuable copper so now its making new cut-resistant cables and adding alarm systems in an attempt to mitigate the damage.ChargePoints VP of product management Steve Farrell tells The Verge the cable uses a patent-pending technology that includes strategically placed steel to provide protection. Although the design may make the cables a bit larger and less flexible, Farrell wrote that usability wont be impacted, and that most users will not notice the difference with the changes. The new cable can be retrofitted on commercial and fleet charging stations (both AC and DC models) made by the company.Read Article >Jan 9Andrew J. HawkinsMercedes-Benz EV owners can start using Tesla Superchargers in FebruaryImage: Mercedes-BenzMercedes-Benz said that its electric vehicles will be able to access Teslas Supercharger network starting in February.By now you should be familiar with how this goes: a manufacturer announces Supercharger access, first through the use of NACS-to-CCS adapters and then later with native NACS integration. The adapters are available to purchase through dealerships. And EV owners will get to giddily watch as the number of accessible public EV chargers suddenly grows by the thousands. (By last count, Tesla had 20,000 stalls in the US and Canada.)Read Article >Dec 23, 2024Umar ShakirHyundai will give its EV customers free NACS adapters in early 2025An Ioniq 5 using a CCS to NACS adapter to charge at a Supercharger. Image: HyundaiHyundai announced it will start distributing free CCS to Tesla NACS adapters to its EV customers in the first quarter of 2025. The adapters will enable vehicles such as the Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6 to connect to 20,000-plus Tesla Supercharger stations. The free adapter is available to those who purchased or leased their Hyundai EVs on or before January 31st, 2025.The NACS adapter deal includes 2024 and earlier Kona Electric, Ioniq hatchback, Ioniq 5, and Ioniq 6. It also includes the 2025 Ioniq 6, 2025 Ioniq 5 N, 2025 Kona Electric, and Genesis brand EVs (a full list will be revealed next year). You can request the free adapter through the My Hyundai owner portal.Read Article >Dec 18, 2024Umar ShakirGM and ChargePoint plan to install hundreds of fast EV chargers by the end of 2025A station render with Chargepoint-built GM Energy chargers. Image: GMGM is partnering with ChargePoint to build out a new EV charging network under the GM Energy brand, the companies announced today.GM plans to install up to 500 DC fast-charging ports at stations deployed in strategic places across the US, with some equipped with ChargePoints Express Plus platform that supports charge speeds up to 500kW. GM and Chargepoint plan to open the stations rapidly, with the locations deployed by the end of 2025.Read Article >Dec 13, 2024Andrew J. HawkinsEVgo nabs $1.25 billion loan as Biden races to approve more EV spendingPhoto by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty ImagesThe US Department of Energy announced a $1.25 billion loan to electric vehicle charging company EVgo as the Biden administration races to finalize its spending on EVs before Donald Trump takes office. The money will fund EVgos plans to install approximately 7,500 chargers at roughly 1,100 charging stations across the US over the next five years, with a particular focus on fast-charging 350kW stalls that can charge two vehicles simultaneously.But more importantly, it shows how President Joe Biden is intent on doling out as much money for EV projects as he can before leaving office. Trump has promised to reverse or cancel much of the spending by Biden on EVs once he assumes office. He has said he will kill the $7,500 tax credit for new EV purchases and wipe out the rest of the spending from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on EV charging infrastructure.Read Article >Dec 5, 2024Andrew J. HawkinsRivian opens up its charging network to other EVs for the first timeImage: RivianRivians latest EV charging station is the first to be open to other companies vehicles.The new station located in Californias Joshua Tree National Park will be the companies first thats available to non-Rivian electric vehicles. The station features a new design, including larger displays with a tap-to-pay option, that can accommodate any car brands EVs.Read Article >Dec 4, 2024Umar ShakirNissan needs a little something extra to connect the Ariya toTeslas SuperchargersIm sorry, I put that thing in what? Image: NissanNissan put out a tutorial video for Ariya owners today that shows how to use a Tesla NACS adapter with the vehicle, and it includes a step completely out of left field: shove a small piece of plastic into your cars CCS port before you connect the adapter.The Ariya is Nissans first EV with a CCS port, and the automaker just activated the vehicles ability to connect to Teslas vast Supercharger network in October. Other manufacturers have also adopted Teslas NACS standard, with companies like Ford and Rivian already shipping adapters to current EV owners. But none of those EVs need you to take a confusing extra step to make the adapter work.Read Article >Dec 4, 2024Wes DavisGM and EVgo now have over 2,000 EV charging stalls and countingOne of the co-branded GM Energy / EVgo fast chargers. Image: General MotorsGeneral Motors and EV charging company EVgo announced that theyve installed their 2,000th public EV charging stall, in Murrieta, California. With that, GM has met a deadline it set in September to have the bulk of its planned 2,850 DC fast-charging stalls set up by the end of this year.GM says the new station, which is near Interstate 215 in Riverside County, serves five 350kW fast chargers for as many as 10 EVs simultaneously. All of the new GM / EVgo stalls are populated with CCS chargers, EVgo communications director Katie Wallace told The Verge in an email. Wallace said the company is still testing Teslas NACS, which has emerged as the de facto standard over the last year and a half, before using it in charging stations:Read Article >Dec 4, 2024Andrew J. HawkinsA universal Plug and Charge protocol for EV charging is coming in 2025Photo by Andrew J. Hawkins / The VergeThe fragmented and frustrating nature of our current EV charging landscape has been widely and correctly cited as one of the most significant barriers to EV adoption. Why buy a plug-in car when every time you plug it in, you have to sign up for another EV charging app, fumble through your payment information, authorize the account, and pray it results in a successful charging experience?What if you could instead plug in and everything just worked automatically? Thats the goal of a partnership between nonprofit SAEs Industries Technology Consortia and a consortium of automakers and EV charging operators, along with the Biden administrations Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, which just announced a new security framework for universal Plug and Charge that will be officially rolled out early next year.Read Article >Nov 26, 2024Umar ShakirElon Musk learns how EV charging works from Pete ButtigiegImage: Hugo Herrera / The VergeYoud think Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and its wide-reaching Supercharger network, would already know about the workings of the federal National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program that has dedicated $7.5 billion to building a national charging network. However, he needed Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to chime in on X yesterday to stop some Republican leaders from spreading misinformation about the program.Please post the rebuttal, Musk asked Buttigieg under a Donald Trump Jr. post quoting Ohio congressperson Michael Rulli, who accuses Buttigieg of squandering billions to build 8 EV charging stations. Buttigieg tells Trump the post is false.Read Article >Nov 18, 2024Umar ShakirTeslas first 500kW V4 Superchargers are coming next yearNew V4 cabinet and Supercharger stalls. Image: TeslaTesla will launch fully realized V4 Supercharger stations that support up to 500kW charging for EVs and 1.2MW for Teslas commercial Semi trucks next year. Sites with new V4 cabinets are going into permitting now. When they open next year, theyll connect the charging stalls EVs plug into with upgraded electronics that support faster charging on Cybertruck and other manufacturers EVs.Tesla started rolling out the V4 stalls in Europe and limited places in the US last year. However, their power cabinets are limited to the capabilities of V3 Supercharger stations that support 250kW max charging. The updated V4 stalls include new physical payment terminals, longer cords that can reach the charge ports of other manufacturers EVs without causing the vehicles to block additional spots, and CCS connectors (so you dont have to bring your own adapter.)Read Article >Nov 13, 2024Andrew J. HawkinsGM offers free nighttime charging to Chevy EV owners in TexasImage: ReliantGeneral Motors is teaming up with Reliant Energy to offer free nighttime charging to some Chevy electric vehicle owners in Texas.Chevy owners who enroll in Reliants EV charging plan will receive free nighttime charging through monthly bill credits that offset charges incurred between 11PM. and 6AM, the companies said. Customers must also designate an EV to receive the charging credit through GM Energys Smart Charging Portal. (GM Energy is the automakers home energy subsidiary, and Reliant is a subsidiary of NRG Energy.)Read Article >Nov 6, 2024Wes DavisCurbside charging is coming to Michigan.AT&T and curbside EV charging startup Voltpost announced a partnership to convert street lights across Michigan and the Metro-Detroit area into internet-connected EV charging posts. That connectivity means its easier to monitor and fix malfunctioning posts, as InsideEVs writes.Curbside charging is very rare in the US. Voltpoints plans also include charging posts in New York City and Chicago, though, and Massachusetts has been testing utility pole-mounted ones since 2022.Detroit Is Turning Lampposts Into Internet-Connected EV Chargers[InsideEVs]Oct 29, 2024Andrew J. HawkinsVolvo and Polestar EVs are now getting Tesla Supercharger accessVolvo and Polestar two Swedish car brands owned by Chinas Geely are now offering their electric vehicle customers access to Teslas Supercharger network. The companies are taking orders for adapters that will allow its EV customers to charge at over 17,800 Supercharger stalls across the country.Teslas superior charging experience and the ubiquity of its Superchargers has spurred the entire auto industry to announce support for the companys North American Charging Standard (NACS). All non-Tesla EVs will require adapters at first, but automakers have said they intend to start producing vehicles with native NACS ports installed at the factory starting as soon as 2025.Read Article >Oct 24, 2024Andrew J. HawkinsScouts charge port looks... busy.Scouts Terra and Traveler EVs will come with the Tesla charging port, also known as NACS, right out of the factory. Unlike other EV makers, the company wont have to bumble through an CCS-to-NACS adapter phase with customers. Both Scout EVs will come with an 800-volt architecture, so charging should be very fast. And as you can see, it will have plenty of 120-volt plugs too!Plugs upon plugs. Image: Abigail BassettOct 23, 2024Wes DavisTesla is moving on its solar-powered Supercharger ambitions.Tesla CEO Elon Musk has long promised off-the-grid Superchargers powered by the sun. Now, the company has broken ground on Oasis, a new, 168-stall Supercharger station in Lost Hills, California, says Teslas North American director of charging, Max de Zegher:Only 1.5 MW grid service, ahead of a future expansion11 MW of ground mount solar & canopies, on 30 acres of land10 @Tesla_Megapack with 39 MWh of storageThe site, he says, will open by mid-2025.Max de Zegher on Twitter / X[Twitter]Oct 19, 2024Wes DavisFord tells some EV customers to stop using its Tesla Supercharger adapterFord says some of its NACS adapters could cause issues. Image: FordFord started offering free adapters for Teslas Supercharger network to owners of its EVs in February, and now its telling some of its customers to stop using them, reports InsideEVs. The company found a potential issue that could cause reduced charging speeds over time or even damage to the charge port itself, according to a service bulletin its sending to those affected.Ford EV owners should follow the link on Fords notice to make sure it has the right address on file. If it is, they wont need to do anything else to get their replacement, but if not, the company says customers need to update their address by October 24th.Read Article >Oct 15, 2024Umar ShakirNissan is giving Ariya owners a new charging network, access toTeslaSuperchargersElectrify America is one of several charging networks included in Nissans offering. Image: NissanNissan is starting up an electric vehicle charging network that lets Ariya SUV owners connect and pay at participating third-party charging stations using the MyNissan app. The new Nissan Energy Charge Network consists of 90,000 fast chargers in the US from partner companies Electrify America, Shell Recharge, ChargePoint, and EVgo. Starting in November, Ariya owners can use a stored payment method in their MyNissan app to start and pay for a charging session with one tap at a station.Nissan also says it will make available Tesla Supercharger-compatible NACS adapters for Ariya owners later this year. Some companies like Kia, Ford, and Rivian will or have been providing the adapter for free, while others like GM will sell one for a price. Nissan did not immediately respond to our email asking whether the adapter would be free. In 2025, Nissan plans to launch EVs with native NACS ports in the US and Canada.Read Article >Oct 11, 2024Andrew J. HawkinsJuiceboxs EV charging customers get a reprieve.With Enel X Way USA shutting down, Juicebox owners were expecting to lose their connectivity features. But now the company says its working with a financial services company to auction off its software management assets, and customers will be transferred to the winner. In other words, the Juicebox app may live on.Liquid Asset Partners Supports Enel X Way USA LLC Transfer of Customer Management (Clients) and Sale of Assets for Bid at Auction[PRNewswire]Oct 7, 2024Umar ShakirNissan buys into Ford, BMW, and Hondas home EV charging businessImage: ChargeScapeNissan is coming aboard vehicle-to-grid (V2G) EV integration company ChargeScape as an equal investor, alongside founding automakers BMW, Ford, and Honda.Once the investment transaction is complete, Nissan said it plans to roll out ChargeScapes services to its electric vehicle customers in the US and Canada.Read Article >Oct 4, 2024Umar ShakirYour next Blink EV charging station session might have an added fee.The company is rolling out a new $0.49 access fee starting with select stations and adding more over time. The fee will apply to each charging session. Host-owned chargers can add an additional fee on top, if desired. Blink says it will continue to offer its membership with no monthly subscription fees.Blinks email to customers announcing the new fees. Screenshot: The VergeOct 4, 2024Umar ShakirIonnas first charging station is breaking ground in North Carolina.The Durham, NC-based EV charging company backed by eight automakers, including BMW, Honda, General Motors, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, and most recently Toyota, is building its first Rechargery location in Apex, North Carolina. The location will offer 10 bays with CCS and NACS ports supporting 400kW charging. Apex is outside the Hurricane Helene disaster zone, where residents have reported using their EVs to power their homes during blackouts.The rendering features an EV from each company. Image: IonnaMore Stories

Kias electric vehicles will get Tesla Supercharger access sometime in March 2025, the company announced in a statement. Kia EVs, including the EV6 and EV9, were scheduled to get Supercharger access in January using NACS to CCS1 adapters, but that has been delayed.Kias sister company, Hyundai, is beginning to ship new 2025 model year Ioniq 5 EVs with native NACS ports that match the ones on Teslas, and its models with older CCS1 ports can already plug into Supercharger stations using an adapter. However, Kia dealerships are now receiving NACS adapters meant to be free to EV6 and EV9 owners who purchased the new vehicles on or after September 4th, 2024. Kia also says owners can buy the adapter from dealers.On YouTube, State of Charge noted that the adapters Kia is sending to its owners appear to be rated for 1000 volts but only 350 amps, which is lower than adapters used by other manufacturers that are usually 500 amps. It should be fine for use with the Kia vehicles its designed for, but it could run into compatibility issues if people try to use it with other manufacturers cars.Kia says the adapters are engineered to meet Teslas charging specifications and have been developed and tested for use with Kia EV vehicles, and Use of other adapters may result in repairs that are not covered by Kias warranty.Some Kia owners say they have already successfully Supercharged their EVs using third-party NACS adapters by tricking the Tesla app into thinking they are charging a Hyundai (both the EV6 and Ioniq 5 share the same E-GMP EV platform). However, Tesla may have now closed that loophole.

Scikit-learn from A to Z: The Complete Guide to Mastering Machine Learning in Python 0 like January 29, 2025Share this postLast Updated on January 29, 2025 by Editorial TeamAuthor(s): Aleti Adarsh Originally published on Towards AI. This member-only story is on us. Upgrade to access all of Medium.We have seen how Machine learning has revolutionized industries across the globe during the past decade, and Python has emerged as the language of choice for aspiring data scientists and seasoned professionals alike. At the heart of Pythons machine-learning ecosystem lies Scikit-learn, a powerful, flexible, and user-friendly library. Whether youre a beginner or an expert, this comprehensive guide will take you through Scikit-learn from A to Z, unlocking its potential to solve real-world problems.Scikit-learn is an open-source machine learning library built on Python. Its designed to handle a variety of machine learning tasks, including:Supervised Learning (e.g., regression, classification)Unsupervised Learning (e.g., clustering, dimensionality reduction)Model Evaluation and SelectionData Preprocessing and Feature EngineeringWith a simple and consistent API, Scikit-learn is widely regarded as the go-to library for fast prototyping and efficient deployment of machine learning models.It will be boring if we continue learning about what , why of scikit learn we will get bored . Instead lets try to dive down into a basic model and check how scikit-learn can be used in every step . lets goFirst we will import librarypip install scikit-learnThe Basic steps that we do before creating a Read the full blog for free on Medium.Join thousands of data leaders on the AI newsletter. Join over 80,000 subscribers and keep up to date with the latest developments in AI. From research to projects and ideas. If you are building an AI startup, an AI-related product, or a service, we invite you to consider becoming asponsor. Published via Towards AITowards AI - Medium Share this post

Gaming on Vision Pro isnt yet the devices strong suit, but one recent launch should start to change that. Gamers will now find a massive expansion of new games availablemore than 2,000 totalthanks to NVIDIA GeForce NOW coming to visionOS.Cloud gaming library expands visionOS game options significantlyEarlier this month, NVIDIA announced that GeForce NOW, its cloud gaming service, would support Apples Vision Pro soon.Now, as of an update last week, support has officially arrived.GeForce NOW enables Vision Pro users to stream games in 4K at 120 FPS, with ultrawide resolutions available at ultra-low latency. Gamepads are supported too.The game library available for subscribers now exceeds 2,000 titles, and you can even play over 100 for free with no paid subscription required.All of this happens through Safaris native visionOS app. It is unknown if the just-released visionOS 2.3 makes a difference at all for compatibility, but its probably best to update before giving GeForce NOW a try.To learn more about the requirements and best practices for running GeForce NOW on your Vision Pro, visit this NVIDIA support page.9to5Macs TakeThis news doesnt fix Vision Pros lack of VR-optimized games, but it does provide a huge expansion of users gaming options on the platform. 2,000 new games immediately available in visionOS through a massive Safari window is a lot to explore, and hopefully just the first of several Vision Pro gaming upgrades this year.Are you interested in playing GeForce NOW games on Vision Pro? Let us know in the comments.Best Vision Pro accessoriesAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has become the subject of widespread mockery online after whining that buzzy Chinese AI startup DeepSeek stole its intellectual property despite indiscriminately ripping off other people's work itself for many years.The Sam Altman-led company told the Financial Times that it had "some evidence" of DeepSeek stealing its intellectual property, training its AI models on the output of OpenAI's models.DeepSeek threw Silicon Valley into complete chaos earlier this week,wiping out over $1 trillion worth of market capitalization in a single day. Its R1 model impressed with a performance that can rival OpenAI's most sophisticated models while using a tiny fraction of the resources.The glaring hypocrisy of OpenAI ripping off human creatives and then accusing DeepSeek of vacuuming up its work to build a better product didn't go unnoticed."I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing," AI critic Ed Zitron wrote in a scathingpost. "OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT.""Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha," 404 Media's Jason Koebler wrote in a post about the situation."The irony here is palpable," another user wrote."You can't steal from us!" one user joked. "We stole it fair and square!"Other users pointed out that despite having the word "open" in its company name, OpenAI is a closed-source, for-profit entity. Meanwhile, DeepSeek's AI models actually are open source."Unlike OpenAI, DeepSeek is open AI," one X-formerly-Twitter user wrote.OpenAI's whining didn't muster much sympathy."If you steal all the art in the whole world to make tech that lies and can't do arithmetic, and someone steals your tech and then gives that tech out for free while you're still charging $200/mo for it, well, maybe you're not the actual victim here," one Bluesky user argued.It remains to be seen whether OpenAI has much of a case."DeepSeek may well have broken OpenAIs Terms of Service and distilled their intellectual property without permission," AI critic Gary Marcus tweeted. "OpenAI may well have done analogous things to YouTube, New York Times, and countless artists and writers."Marcus was referring to the New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI over copyright infringement and the strong possibility that the firm trained its models by stealing videos from YouTube, which also happens to be against its terms of service."Karma is a bitch," he added.OpenAI has maintained that ripping off copyrighted material to train its AI models falls under fair use, a United States copyright law doctrine permitting the unlicensed use of protected works. Altman has also openly admitted that there would be no OpenAI if it didn't rip off copyrighted materials.But now that DeepSeek has allegedly run afoul of its terms of service by employing the same playbook, OpenAI's position highlights a glaring double standard.Meanwhile, Altman has beat the war drum, arguing that "we will obviously deliver much better models" than DeepSeek without elaborating further.Instead of focusing on beating DeepSeek when it comes to cost efficiency, however, Altman is doubling down, arguing that OpenAI is still hellbent on delivering "more compute."More on DeepSeek: Another Chinese AI Company Says It's Beaten OpenAIShare This Article