Faraday Future Intelligent Electric teams with Qmerit

Faraday Future Intelligent Electric is to partner with Qmerit to support future FF 91 vehicle drivers in need of home charging and other future energy-related installations.

“Faraday Future is taking another important step in our journey to bring the FF 91 to market with customised home charging installations facilitated by infrastructure provider, Qmerit,” said Faraday Future Global CEO, Carsten Breitfeld.

“We’re excited our FF 91 users will have easy access to enjoy our charging and energy solutions.”

With the Faraday Future Installation programme supported by Qmerit, future FF 91 drivers can schedule installation to occur before bringing the vehicle home.

Users start the process by completing a brief survey on the FF app or at FF.com. One of Qmerit’s certified providers will complete a tailored installation.

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Best Comics Not About Superheroes

Netflix’s popular “Sweet Tooth” series revealed the kinds of worlds available to those willing to look beyond superheroes and see what else comic books have to offer. There’s more to be found than good-guy-versus-bad-guy slugfests, even inside the seemingly narrow field of post-apocalyptic settings and stories. Take a look at the list below and discover all-new ways that the world could end, on the big scale as well as the small, without even one superhero showing up to save the day.

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Maybe it’s the can-do spirit of Gus that appealed to you throughout that first “Sweet Tooth” season. If that’s the case, then Boom! Studios’ “Lumberjanes”— a series that almost defines the term “plucky” in how gung-ho it is about the value of both friendship and bravery in the face of adversity — is a must-read. Created by the team of Shannon Watters, Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, and Brooke Allen, “Lumberjanes“ is the story of five teenagers at a summer camp for “Hardcore Lady Types” where weird things happen regularly… not that anything can really challenge the bond of friendship between the five. Funny, uplifting, and (of course) bad ass.

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Steph Curry invests in a pay equity startup

Equal pay has been important to Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry since at least 2018, when he wrote an essay about the issue for The Players’ Tribune. Now, Curry’s investment arm is putting money behind that commitment.

Penny Jar Capital, the early-stage investment firm led by Curry, made a $1 million investment in Syndio, a pay equity software startup. 

“Ensuring people are paid fairly is long overdue and is a fundamental issue that needs to be addressed to progress towards an equitable society,” Curry said in a statement. “Syndio is an objective solution that removes unconscious bias from the equation and changes the way business leaders tackle workplace equity, making pay equity the standard for companies around the world.”

Founded in 2017, Syndio is led by CEO Maria Colacurcio. The software company helps businesses study compensation in their workforces, with clients including Salesforce, Adobe, and PagerDuty. In total, Syndio’s platform has analyzed the pay of 2.6 million employees, the company says. Its other investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Collective.

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With the purchase of Scaniverse, Niantic wants to speed up the creation of a 3D map of the world

Pokemon Go has given wings to Niantic, the creator of the augmented reality game. The studio therefore wants to create a “3D map” of the world, which requires the acquisition of specialists in such technologies as Scaniverse.

Niantic has a consistent idea: to create a 3D map of the world so that the games and games that will use this technology are as accurate as possible. At the beginning of last year, the studio bought 6D.ai, a startup with this goal in mind, simply using smartphone cameras.

Easy 3D scanning

Niantic doubles the stakes by acquiring Scaniverse, an app that simplifies recording 3D objects and environments, always with the help of his smartphone’s camera, both old and newer (lidar-equipped, for example). Scaniverse technology will accelerate the video game studio’s project to provide a 3D map of the world.

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Niantic’s CEO believes the metaverse could be a ‘dystopian nightmare’

The metaverse, the concept of an alternative, shared digital world that originated in sci-fi, has bubbled up to the surface of tech chatter during the later days of the pandemic. It’s a concept that a number of Big Tech and gaming companies, most notably Facebook, Roblox, and Epic Games, are trying to make real.

One of the technologies that may be used to interact with a future metaverse is augmented reality, which intermingles digital content with the real world through a smartphone screen right now and AR glasses in the future. Niantic created the game that introduced many people to AR, Pokémon Go, which means that the company has a vested stake in its own version of a digital reality. Niantic said Tuesday it had acquired a 3D scanning app called Scaniverse, which it will use to crowdsource images from the smartphone cameras of game players. Those images will form a map that will allow Niantic to anchor digital objects to real-world places.

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