Hi there! Hope you're having a splendid week thus far.
A few months ago (in D&T Issue 36) we spoke to you about Tesla and their big factory in India. However, a spanner seems to have been thrown into the works as India rules out import duties cut on EV. Seems like Elon's lost a little of his spark.
We've got some good reads for you so let's jump right in.
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Lorem Ipsum will destroy your design ❌
And why designers can do with flexing their content muscles a bit.
Is DeepMind’s new reinforcement learning system a step toward strong AI? 🧠
Scientists at AI research lab DeepMind claim to have taken the “first steps to train an agent capable of playing many different games without needing human interaction data,” according to a blog post about their new “open-ended learning” initiative.
The woman who is training AI to think with analogies 💡
Melanie Mitchell has worked on digital minds for decades. She says they’ll never truly be like ours until they can make analogies.
Square to buy ‘buy now, pay later’ giant Afterpay in $29B deal 💰
In a blockbuster deal that rocks the fintech world, Square announced today that it is acquiring Australian buy now, pay later giant Afterpay in a $29 billion all-stock deal.
An Indonesian mapping platform is turning social media chatter into life-saving information during natural disasters.
Expert Designers Leading Healthcare Product Innovation 🚑
Modern medical products aren’t just feats of engineering, they’re design marvels that unburden healthcare providers, improve the patient experience, and save lives.
'A stirring moment preserved forever through typography' 🅰️
An indepth interview with Moriwasa, a well established design firm from Japan, now turned eternally relevant with their recent work for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the form a fantastically well developed font family.
Test quantum mechanics in space — invest US$1 billion 👩🚀
Shooting glass beads across the inside of a satellite could probe the limits of quantum wave behaviour, this article explores how.
Preventing a Stablecoin Liquidity Crisis 📉
Andrés Velasco explains why privately issued cryptocurrencies may need to be regulated out of existence.
A series of animated illusions illustrates how we project depth on to flat surfaces 🏎️
AlphaFold neural network produced a ‘totally transformative’ database of more than 350,000 structures from Homo sapiens and 20 model organisms.
Honorary mentions
World's first magnetised fusion power station to be built in UK ⚛️
An insect-inspired AI could make missile-defense systems more nimble 🐛
A Time Crystal Finally Made Real 🔮
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