The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars

The 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge was a spectacular failure. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency had offered a US $1 million prize for the team that could design an autonomous ground vehicle capable of completing an off-road course through sometimes flat, sometimes winding and mountainous desert terrain. As IEEE Spectrumreported at the time, it was “the… Continue reading The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars

Clean Technica: Shocker: Trump Tariffs Will Hurt Tesla003834

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Last Updated on: 1st February 2025, 12:27 am One of the funny things about a convincing con man: you believe all of the good stuff he tells you, but you ignore the warning signs. Going back a century or… Continue reading Clean Technica: Shocker: Trump Tariffs Will Hurt Tesla003834

Members of AI Fringe Group Arrested for Two Killings

This is getting weird, even for AI. Cultimate Warrior As if the San Francisco Bay Area couldn’t get any weirder, there’s now suspicion that a bizarre AI-enthusiastic group in the region may have inspired a pair of deadly assaults that took place thousands of miles apart. As Open Vallejo reports, two young computer scientists and apparent… Continue reading Members of AI Fringe Group Arrested for Two Killings

Mother Says Her Son Died After UnitedHealth Jacked the Price of His Inhaler From $66 to $539

Image by Kinga Krzeminska / Getty Images A young man with severe asthma used to be able to get his inhaler for cheap, but after UnitedHealthcare’s drug arm jacked up the price, he had to go without — and it ultimately killed him, his mother says. As Madison, Wisconsin’s WMTV reports, the parents of the… Continue reading Mother Says Her Son Died After UnitedHealth Jacked the Price of His Inhaler From $66 to $539

Unilumin wertet CCTV Spring Festival Gala 2025 mit modernsten LED-Lösungen auf

SHENZHEN, China, 1. Februar 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Am 28. Januar begeisterte die CCTV Spring Festival Gala 2025 das Publikum weltweit und vereinte Tradition mit modernster Technologie. Als langjähriger technischer Partner von CCTV spielte Unilumin einmal mehr eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Gestaltung atemberaubender Bühnenbilder mit modernsten LED-Display-Lösungen und innovativen digitalen Inhalten. Grenzen verschieben mit AR, XR und… Continue reading Unilumin wertet CCTV Spring Festival Gala 2025 mit modernsten LED-Lösungen auf

Pro-Israel AI Bot Goes Off the Rails, Calls IDF Soldiers “Colonizers” and Demands Palestinian Statehood

We’ve never seen anything quite like this before. Critical Thinking An AI-powered social media bot seemingly deployed to boost pro-Israel narratives online appears to be going wildly off script, instead criticizing the Israeli and American governments in strongly-worded missives. As the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports, an account called @FactFinderAI X on X-formerly-Twitter appears to be one… Continue reading Pro-Israel AI Bot Goes Off the Rails, Calls IDF Soldiers “Colonizers” and Demands Palestinian Statehood

From avocados to autos, Trump tariffs on Canada and Mexico could hit close to home

The president says the 25% levies are designed to pressure America’s two neighbors to do more to stop the flow of undocumented immigrants and fentanyl into the United States. The 25% tax that President Donald Trump plans to slap on imports from Canada and Mexico as soon as Saturday could drive up the price of… Continue reading From avocados to autos, Trump tariffs on Canada and Mexico could hit close to home

United Imaging stellt auf der Arab Health 2025 bahnbrechende Innovationen vor und stärkt strategische Partnerschaften im gesamten Nahen Osten und Afrika

DUBAI, VAE, 1. Februar 2025 /PRNewswire/ — United Imaging, ein weltweit führender Hersteller fortschrittlicher medizinischer Bildgebungs- und Strahlentherapiegeräte, hat auf der Arab Health 2025 eine Reihe bahnbrechender Innovationen vorgestellt und dabei wichtige Partnerschaften mit führenden Unternehmen aus den Bereichen Gesundheitswesen und Technologie geschlossen. Das Unternehmen, das seine Präsenz im globalen Gesundheitswesen immer weiter ausbaut, stellte seine… Continue reading United Imaging stellt auf der Arab Health 2025 bahnbrechende Innovationen vor und stärkt strategische Partnerschaften im gesamten Nahen Osten und Afrika

DeepSeek’s AI Would Like to Assure You That China Is Not Committing Any Human Rights Abuses Whatsoever Against Its Repressed Uyghur Population

China’s DeepSeek, which threw Silicon Valley into chaos this week, makes no qualms about sending all of your sensitive data straight to the Chinese government. It’s also no secret that the hedge fund-owned startup is closely abiding by the country’s extreme censorship rules. The company’s AI chatbot is consistently distorting reality — in sometimes hamhanded… Continue reading DeepSeek’s AI Would Like to Assure You That China Is Not Committing Any Human Rights Abuses Whatsoever Against Its Repressed Uyghur Population

Tesla and Chinese Carmakers Could Reap Billions From EU Emissions Rules

As European automakers brace for a possible trade war waged by President Trump, they are working to ward off another threat on their home turf: the prospect of paying hundreds of millions of dollars to Tesla and Chinese competitors muscling in on their core markets. Under stricter European Union regulations taking effect this year, automakers… Continue reading Tesla and Chinese Carmakers Could Reap Billions From EU Emissions Rules