Vietnam’s VinFast said on Saturday it would recall 730 of its model VF e34 electric cars (EVs), which are available only on the domestic market, to make checks and replace their side crash sensors. VinFast, which began operations in 2019, is a unit of Vietnam’s biggest conglomerate Vingroup and has sold 2,208 EVs in total since its launch late last year. “The side crash sensor of the airbag system equipped… Continue reading Vietnam’s VinFast recalls a third of its sold EVs to replace sensors
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S Korean President calls for quick resumption of popular messaging, portal services
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Sunday called for swift measures to resume all services offered by Kakao Corp and Naver Corp, a day after a fire at a data centre damaged their servers and caused outages. Service disruptions, some of which continued into Sunday, hit some of the country’s most-used apps and websites, including Kakao messenger and the… Continue reading S Korean President calls for quick resumption of popular messaging, portal services
New European Political Party Is Led by an Artificial Intelligence
Introducing: The Synthetic Party, a new political party in Denmark that hopes to soon have a parliament seat. Oh, and by the way, its head honcho, Leader Lars, is actually an AI chatbot, and all of its policies are AI-derived. Cool? Asker Staunæs, the creator of the party and an artist-researcher at the nonprofit art… Continue reading New European Political Party Is Led by an Artificial Intelligence
Sneaky Students Using AI to Write Their Papers For Them
Kids? Being better at technology than adults? We’re shocked. Honor Code Tech-savvy students are reportedly getting straight As by using advanced language generators — mainly OpenAI’s wildly advanced GPT-3, according to Motherboard — to write papers for them. And as these AI-written responses can’t be detected by plagiarism software, schools are likely to have a… Continue reading Sneaky Students Using AI to Write Their Papers For Them
Scientists Spotted Something That Appeared to Be Moving 7 Times the Speed of Light
That can’t be right. Speed Demon Back in 2017, scientists observed a spectacular collision of two neutron stars that blasted a jet of radiation so powerful that NASA says the energy it released was “comparable to that of a supernova,” according to a press release by the agency. But it’s taken scientists until now to… Continue reading Scientists Spotted Something That Appeared to Be Moving 7 Times the Speed of Light
GoPro Hero 11 Black Review: Vertical Video
As somehow who largely dreads postproduction video editing, I was far more excited about some of the other new software-based features in the Hero 11 Black, especially the Star Trails feature. If you’ve ever tried shooting star trails before, you know how laborious it is to stack hundreds of images, so this will probably blow… Continue reading GoPro Hero 11 Black Review: Vertical Video
What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way’s Black Hole May Be the Key
On May 12, at nine simultaneous press conferences around the world, astrophysicists revealed the first image of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. At first, awesome though it was, the painstakingly produced image of the ring of light around our galaxy’s central pit of darkness seemed to merely prove what experts… Continue reading What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way’s Black Hole May Be the Key
Hitting the Books: The women who made ENIAC more than a weapon
After Mary Sears and her team had revolutionized the field of oceanography, but before Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson helped put John Glenn into orbit, a cadre of women programmers working for the US government faced an impossible task: train ENIAC, the world’s first modern computer, to do more than quickly calculate… Continue reading Hitting the Books: The women who made ENIAC more than a weapon
Mercedes-Benz EQE SUV is a more down-to-earth luxury electric vehicle
/ The SUV version of the EQE sedan will be available starting next year. We don’t have the price yet, but we can probably expect something less than the six-figure EQS. The EQE SUV will be out by 2023. Image: Mercedes-Benz The Mercedes-Benz EQE has been SUV-ified. The German automaker revealed a higher riding, more… Continue reading Mercedes-Benz EQE SUV is a more down-to-earth luxury electric vehicle
Southwest Airlines has a new idea for customers. Some are already angry about it
It has the love. But does it have the power? Southwest Airlines/Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk The horrid times are over. The torrid times, too. As we lurch toward the end of the year, everything looks brighter. Well, except for the threat of recession and complete social and political dissolution. But let’s not worry about that.… Continue reading Southwest Airlines has a new idea for customers. Some are already angry about it