As sales of its electric cars have fallen, Tesla and its chief executive, Elon Musk, have sought to convince Wall Street that the company’s future lies not in the grinding business of making and selling cars but in the far more exciting world of artificial intelligence. In Mr. Musk’s telling, one of Tesla’s main A.I.-based… Continue reading Elon Musk Says Robotaxis Are Tesla’s Future. Experts Have Doubts.
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A Senate Bill Would Radically Improve Voting Machine Security
Congress is moving closer to putting US election technology under a stricter cybersecurity microscope. Embedded inside this year’s Intelligence Authorization Act, which funds intelligence agencies like the CIA, is the Strengthening Election Cybersecurity to Uphold Respect for Elections through Independent Testing (SECURE IT) Act, which would require penetration testing of federally certified voting machines and… Continue reading A Senate Bill Would Radically Improve Voting Machine Security
Bandwidth Wins ‘Best CPaaS Platform’ Award From UC Today for Innovation, Experience and Execution
Panel of 16 cloud communications experts honored Bandwidth’s Maestro™ and AIBridge software innovations delivered on the owner-operated Bandwidth Communications Cloud RALEIGH, N.C., July 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Bandwidth Inc. (NASDAQ: BAND), a leading global enterprise cloud communications company, today announced it has won the coveted UC Award for “Best CPaaS Platform.” Described as one of… Continue reading Bandwidth Wins ‘Best CPaaS Platform’ Award From UC Today for Innovation, Experience and Execution
Cleantechnica: Can You Live In An EV?003526
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! A few years ago, I spent a summer Uber driving around the Phoenix metro area. As with all rideshare drivers, I met a lot of interesting people. Many were passengers, but fellow drivers at the airport and just people… Continue reading Cleantechnica: Can You Live In An EV?003526
2024 Summer Olympics: A Self-Healing Pole Vault Pole Is One Great Leap for Sports Tech
The Swiss company CompPair focuses on composites with the goal of making products more repairable. Its hallmark composites rely on what CompPair calls HealTech technology to create a healable surface. The way it works is that when something gets scratched or dinged, heating up the resins that hold fibers together could soften them and let… Continue reading 2024 Summer Olympics: A Self-Healing Pole Vault Pole Is One Great Leap for Sports Tech
Class Action Lawsuit Alleges T-Mobile Broke Its Lifetime Price Guarantee
Angry T-Mobile customers have filed a class action lawsuit over the carrier’s decision to raise prices on plans that were advertised as having a lifetime price guarantee. “Based upon T-Mobile’s representations that the rates offered with respect to certain plans were guaranteed to last for life or as long as the customer wanted to remain… Continue reading Class Action Lawsuit Alleges T-Mobile Broke Its Lifetime Price Guarantee
California Supreme Court upholds classification of gig workers as independent contractors
Ride-share companies scored a victory in the California Supreme Court, allowing them to continue classifying gig workers as independent contractors rather than employees. Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other gig-economy companies invested around $200 million in the passage of Proposition 22, which voters approved in 2020. The state’s highest court rejected a legal challenge from a… Continue reading California Supreme Court upholds classification of gig workers as independent contractors
Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash have finally won the Prop 22 gig worker battle
/ The ride-hailing and food delivery services won’t have to classify gig workers as employees. By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Share this story California Gig Workers Union members gather outside the Supreme… Continue reading Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash have finally won the Prop 22 gig worker battle
CrowdStrike Offers $10 Gift Card as Apology for Shutting Down Basically the Whole Earth
“To express our gratitude, your next cup of coffee or late night snack is on us!” Free Snacks CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm behind last week’s epic global computer meltdown — seemingly the largest IT outage in history — is offering its partners a hilariously inadequate mea culpa: a $10 Uber Eats gift card in apology.… Continue reading CrowdStrike Offers $10 Gift Card as Apology for Shutting Down Basically the Whole Earth
Tesla shares close down 12% after earnings miss for biggest slump since 2020
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla. Antonio Masiello | Getty Images Tesla shares plummeted the most since 2020 after the electric vehicle maker reported weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings and another drop in automotive revenue. The stock closed down 12% on Wednesday at $215.99. It’s now down 13% for the year, while the Nasdaq is up 16% over… Continue reading Tesla shares close down 12% after earnings miss for biggest slump since 2020