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Nothing will launch the Phone 2a one week from today, and the company is showing off the real thing at MWC Barcelona.

Four leading European research institutes — CEA-Leti in France, IMEC in Belgium, Fraunhofer in Germany, and VTT in Finland — are accepting design proposals to prototype edge AI technologies at their facilities. In 2022, the institutes set up an EU consortium to accelerate testing and development of edge AI hardware. Dubbed Prevail, the project will create a multi-hub network that will validate new

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A US Navy veteran compares the best multiple launcher rocket systems from the US and UK, detailing HIMARS and the BM-30 Smerch.

People have been trying to talk to computers for almost as long as they’ve been building computers. For decades, many in tech have been convinced that this was the trick: if we could figure out a way to talk to our computers the way we talk to other people, and for computers to talk back the same way, it would make those computers easier to understand and operate, more accessible

• Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, addressed the European Parliament. 
• She accused Russian officials of abusing her husband's body. 
• Navalny died suddenly in an Arctic penal colony in February 16.

Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of

• The Southern region of the US is poised to play a bigger role in the American economy.
• The US population is clustering in the South, and economic growth has followed.
• Cities like Houston, Dallas, Nashville, and Miami could fuel future growth.

If you're searching for the future of the American

• Klarna says its AI assistant is doing the equivalent work of 700 people.
• The Swedish fintech said the assistant was on par with human agents for customer satisfaction.
• Not everyone's impressed, but the assistant is another sign of the

• Apple is reportedly abandoning its vehicle project after a decade of development.
• It's the latest casualty in the brutal EV market.
• Apple is tapping out as car companies scramble to adjust EV plans.

The Apple car is dead (apparently).

The scrapped plans are a grim sign for the EV market in the US, which has suffered from flagging demand. Apple has been working on

• Jack Edwards, who calls himself "YouTube's resident librarian," has amassed 1.3 million subscribers.
• He's built a business that includes brand deals, speaking gigs, and YouTube ad revenue.
• As his channel grows, he's considering hiring, but says he will keep doing all the reading himself.

Last year, the

• A UPS worker said he worked 91 hours in the week leading up to Christmas.
• The package handler worked as a seasonal driver to earn over 50 hours of overtime pay.
• In the end, he made $2,670 before taxes for one week of work.

Even part-timers at UPS can make

• Savannah and Casey are best friends who moved off-grid together.
• They didn't want to put their life on hold waiting for a romantic partner to buy land and a home.
• A successful side-hustle during the pandemic earned them just enough money to make the move.

Savannah and Casey felt ready to make their dream of living off-grid a