Photo by Brett Sayles on Pexels.com Anyone living in San Francisco knows that the city has been a testing ground for hundreds of self-driving cars – and there is probably a good reason why. In light of a series of incidents, including a pedestrian who was seriously injured by a Cruise robotaxi last year, California… Continue reading In California, self-driving cars are immune to traffic tickets
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Tesla Cybertruck drives 254 miles in highway range test
One of the very first Tesla Cybertruck independent range tests shows the electric pickup truck covering only 254 miles on the highway. That’s significantly less than the 320 EPA range, but it was cold and highway driving only. One of the things most disappointing about the Cybertruck since its production launch is the range. The… Continue reading Tesla Cybertruck drives 254 miles in highway range test
Google wrote a ‘Robot Constitution’ to make sure its new AI droids won’t kill us
/ The data gathering system AutoRT applies safety guardrails inspired by Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics. By Amrita Khalid, one of the authors of audio industry newsletter Hot Pod. Khalid has covered tech, surveillance policy, consumer gadgets, and online communities for more than a decade. Share this story Image: Google The DeepMind robotics team… Continue reading Google wrote a ‘Robot Constitution’ to make sure its new AI droids won’t kill us
Perplexity AI raises over $73m from Bezos, Nvidia, others at $520m valuationPerplexity AI raised $25.6m in March last year led by New Enterprise Assoc…
Perplexity AI has raised $73.6 million in its latest funding round from a group of investors including U.S. chip designer Nvidia and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in a deal valuing the artificial intelligence startup at $520 million. The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners, the San Francisco, California-based company said on Thursday. Perplexity AI,… Continue reading Perplexity AI raises over $73m from Bezos, Nvidia, others at $520m valuationPerplexity AI raised $25.6m in March last year led by New Enterprise Assoc…
New Mapping Finds the Oceans Are Filled With “Dark Vessels”
We’re only beginning to uncover the truth. Dark Vessels Researchers have exposed an enormous quantity of previously untracked human activity at sea using a combination of satellite imagery, vessel GPS data, and AI. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature by Global Fishing Watch, a nonprofit backed by Google, researchers found… Continue reading New Mapping Finds the Oceans Are Filled With “Dark Vessels”
Semaglutide Patients Regained More Weight Than They’d Lost After Stopping Their Injections
Image by Jaap Arriens / NurPhoto via Getty / Futurism Semaglutide, the active ingredient in the injectable diabetes drug Ozempic and its weight-loss sister prescription Wegovy, seems to have yet another unfortunate side effect: putting back on the weight, and then some, when patients stop taking it. As two women told The Messenger in interviews about… Continue reading Semaglutide Patients Regained More Weight Than They’d Lost After Stopping Their Injections
CEO of Crypto Firm Appears to Be Entirely Fake
The CEO of a crypto Ponzi scheme appears, much like the promises his firm made, to be completely fake. As The Guardian reports, Steven Reece Lewis was put forth with all kinds of bona fides in 2021 when the HyperVerse metaverse platform/crypto fund announced that he would be taking over as its CEO. Per the paper’s investigation,… Continue reading CEO of Crypto Firm Appears to Be Entirely Fake
To Beat Russia, Ukraine Needs a Major Tech Breakthrough
“Just like in the First World War, we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate,” Ukrainian general Valerii Zaluzhnyi admitted late last year. “There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough.” That blunt assessment from the Ukrainian commander in chief, made in a November interview with The Economist,… Continue reading To Beat Russia, Ukraine Needs a Major Tech Breakthrough
The Man Who Made Robots Dance Now Wants Them to Think for Themselves
Some robots, including from Boston Dynamics, are already doing warehouse work. Do you expect to see that humanoid workforce growing in the coming years? Warehouse work is one of the great applications at the moment because there’s such a need for people. Employers are really frustrated with the difficulty of getting humans and training them… Continue reading The Man Who Made Robots Dance Now Wants Them to Think for Themselves
A Gel Injected Into the Scrotum Could Be the Next Male Contraceptive
The purpose of the current trial is to assess the gel’s safety and longevity, not how well it prevents pregnancy. Participants were asked to use a back-up form of birth control while being enrolled in the trial. The gel is designed to dissolve at the end of its lifetime, so the men will be followed… Continue reading A Gel Injected Into the Scrotum Could Be the Next Male Contraceptive