[ad_1] The cameras and sensors will watch out for factors such as drivers closing their eyes for a long time, looking away from the road for long periods, very slow reaction times, weaving across lanes too much and no steering input over extended periods of time. Volvo plans to start installing sensors and cameras in […]
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Apple backs news literacy programs in US and Italy
[ad_1] How exactly will Apple help these fake news non-profits? Financially, though the company did not disclose the exact details of its contribution. News Literacy Project CEO Alan C. Miller said in a press release that Apple had made the largest corporate contribution in NLP’s history. NLP will now be able to expand its media […]
Waymo is building a new service center for its self-driving fleet
[ad_1] The location is no surprise. Waymo opened its first branch in Chandler, Arizona in 2016. The Alphabet-owned company appears to like driving in the sunny Phoenix area, which has “broad, yet complex, city streets” and a car-dependent suburban population. Eventually, the company will use the new, 85,000-square-foot facility to hire hundreds of employees, too. […]
Scientists can turn regular seawater into hydrogen fuel
[ad_1] Unfortunately, purified water is in itself a scarce resource. Which is why Stanford chemistry professor Hongjie Dai and her team sought out to discover a way to keep salt water from breaking down devices used for water-splitting. “We barely have enough water for our current needs in California,” said Dai in a press release. […]
The UK is testing its first full-sized autonomous bus
[ad_1] The sensor package onboard includes radar, LIDAR, optical cameras, ultrasound and satellite navigation. As with all autonomous vehicle technology, there’s a chance for cross over into manually driven vehicles, where this tech might do things like warn bus drivers of cyclists or pedestrians in blind spots. While this autonomous bus is still in its […]
A New Zealand shooting video hit YouTube every second this weekend
[ad_1] The speed at which the videos were uploaded forced YouTube to take unprecedented measures. Under standard protocol, YouTube’s software flags troublesome content, which human moderators then review. But because the system was inundated, it let the AI software both flag and remove content it suspected to be problematic. As Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product […]
Robot brain teaches machines to pick up objects they haven’t seen before
[ad_1] CSAIL says kPAM or Keypoint Affordance Manipulation is more accurate than other similar technologies. After it detects all the coordinates on an object, it determines what it can do with it. For instance, if it sees a mug with a handle, it can hang it on a hook by its handle. If it determines […]
NASA’s latest cubesat candidates include a solar sail test
[ad_1] The 16 chosen projects are: Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) from Arizona State University. It will monitor the solar flares and activities of red dwarfs to assess the habitability of their planets. BeaverCube from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was designed so that high school students can learn to design CubeSats and study […]
The Polestar 2 is more than just a pretty face
[ad_1] This meant we had to wait until we hit the ground in Geneva to check out the first electric vehicle from (parent brand) Volvo. What we encountered was a vehicle that’s nearly on par design-wise with the breathtaking (yet hybrid) Polestar 1. This shouldn’t be too surprising considering that a focus on design is […]
The birth of the internet and the first telephone call
[ad_1] First successful telephone call (March 10, 1876) Before the internet, we had the telephone. Well, we still do, but let’s be honest, most of us carry our cellphones around because they can get us online anywhere we are. But until the rise of the internet, the telephone was probably the most transformative piece of […]