[ad_1] Model Y Thurs 8pm PDThttps://t.co/9GmXGxH0HX — Tesla (@Tesla) March 14, 2019 The crossover is around 10 percent larger than the Model 3, according to Elon Musk, with a slightly smaller range. We’re expecting to learn about pricing and specifications for the Model Y, which is scheduled to go into production next year. The announcement […]
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Senators want Congressional hacks to be public knowledge
[ad_1] Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Tom Cotton of Arkansas are calling on Senate to provide an annual report on the number of successful hacks of Senate phones and computers. They also want Senate leadership to be notified of any breaches within five days of discovery. As the Senators point out, companies and executive […]
Periscope details plan to cut down on spam and fake activity
[ad_1] “We want to make sure this is clear as you may see an increase in enforcement actions taken on the platform — even actions taken on accounts that may be high profile,” stated Periscope in the post. While Periscope launched a tool in 2016 that allowed viewers to report abusive or spammy comments, this new move […]
Uber will pay $20 million to settle drivers’ lawsuit
[ad_1] The settlement amount is considerably lower than the $100 million offer Uber proposed in 2016, but which US District Judge Edward Chen ruled to be inadequate. However, the original lawsuit involved some 385,000 drivers across California and Massachusetts. Following Chen’s rejection of the deal, Uber won an appeals court ruling that forced many drivers […]
Google’s real-time speech recognition AI can run offline on Pixel
[ad_1] Voice recognition traditionally works by breaking apart the words you speak into smaller parts known as phonemes, according to Science Line. The speech recognizer would then analyze the order, pattern, and context of the phonemes in order to generate a sentence. This would usually result in a lag as you waited for the software […]
GM is doubling the staff for its self-driving car business
[ad_1] GM hasn’t specified exactly how all the hiring will break down, but the company reportedly plans to use the majority of those new job openings to attract engineers. The hiring spree may be in response to the company’s recent struggles. As of last year, reports indicated Cruise was behind schedule, missing mileage targets and […]
We got the free and open internet we deserve
[ad_1] Berners-Lee began developing the Web while working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (aka CERN) in 1989 as a means of sharing data among the organization’s myriad PC brands and operating systems. “It was designed to be universal,” Berners-Lee told NPR in 2017. The whole point was breaking apart silos.” Berners-Lee even envisioned […]
Japan’s moon rover will be made by Toyota
[ad_1] Toyota is going to the moon. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has teamed up with the carmaker to build a pressurized self-driving rover that will land on the lunar surface in 2029. The six-wheeled transporter will be able to carry two humans for a distance of 10,000 kilometers using solar power and Toyota‘s […]
Trump administration may monitor social media to catch disability fraud (updated)
[ad_1] On Monday, the White House released a fiscal 2020 budget proposal that would allow the Social Security Administration to “use all collection tools to recover funds in certain scenarios” as well as hold fraud investigators liable for overpayments. Right-wing think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and the Republican Party have long attacked the […]
IBM’s AI blood test could help with early Alzheimer’s detection
[ad_1] According to a study published in 2017, the concentration of amyloid-beta in a person’s spinal fluid starts changing decades before the first signs of the disease show up. People already experiencing mild cognitive impairment with an abnormal concentration of the peptide in their spinal fluid are apparently 2.5 times more likely to develop the […]