The United States is already a global leader in traffic-related fatalities, with a thirty-percent jump in the last decade. That’s in contrast to every other developed country, which saw a decline....
SpaceX has received the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) approval to operate upgraded Starlink user terminals. These dishes are the first of their kind that will be deployed to users after SpaceX's partial buildup of its second generation Starlink constellation, and the approval came a couple of days back. SpaceX had...
The European Commission has re-imposed a fine of around €376.36 million on Intel for a previously established abuse of dominant position in the market for computer chips called x86 central processing units ('CPUs'). Intel engaged in a series of anticompetitive practices aimed at excluding competitors from the relevant market...
Amazon Plans Commercial Breaks for Prime Video::Amazon plans to add commercial breaks to its Prime Video service, the latest streamer to embrace advertising after previously shunning it
Cruise CEO says SF ‘should be rolling out the red carpet’ for robotaxis, threatens to maybe leave town::In his first major public interview since the DMV cut their San Francisco fleet in half, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said “we cannot expect perfection” from the self-driving cars, and vaguely threatened to leave town if...
The organizers of a high-profile open letter last March calling for a "pause" in work on advanced artificial intelligence lost that battle, but they could be winning a longer-term fight to persuade the world to slow AI down.
Neuralink’s human trials volunteers ‘should have serious concerns,’ say medical experts::A medical ethics committee responded to Elon Musk’s brain-interface startup issuing an open call for patients yesterday.
Meta Adopted Policy to Censor Canadian Facebook Posts About Assassinated Sikh Leader, Emails Show::Emails show Meta executives confirmed company-wide policy to take down posts mentioning assassination of Canadian Sikh leader
Microsoft is releasing a big Windows 11 update on September 26. Update 23H2 includes the new AI-powered Windows Copilot feature, a native RAR app, a new volume mixer and a lot more.
Apple reduces raises given to retail employees after weak iPhone quarter::The smartphone market and general economy have slowed down post-pandemic, and Apple is reacting with a lower raise for employees in 2023 versus 2022.
‘Smart toilet’ that takes anal prints wins Ig Nobel Prize::We have smart phones, smart cars, smart watches and…smart toilets? Well, now we do. Seung-min Park’s Stanford Toilet captured an
MGM Resorts is back online after a huge cyberattack. The hack might have cost the Vegas casino operator $80 million.::MGM Resorts’ customer-facing, electronic systems were largely taken out in a cyberattack that had also targeted Caesars Entertainment.
Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year....