Month: April 2021

Investigators trying to determine whether Autopilot driver-assist system or Full Self-Driving Capability system was in use Federal safety regulators have sent a team to investigate the fatal crash of a Tesla electric car in a Houston suburb in which no one was behind the wheel. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Monday …

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Culture secretary cites competition and national security concerns over Cambridge-based chip designer The UK government has stepped in to order an investigation of Nvidia’s $40bn takeover of the Cambridge-based chip designer Arm, citing potential national security concerns. Oliver Dowden, the UK culture secretary, has written to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) instructing it to …

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Chinese firm could have been monitoring calls of KPN’s 6.5m users without its knowledge, report claims The Chinese telecoms equipment supplier Huawei was able to monitor all calls made on one of the Netherlands’ largest mobile phone networks, according to a confidential report seen by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. The report, made for KPN …

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Top chips, good camera and four-year support make for a lot of phone if bought at a discount The Galaxy S21+ is Samsung’s cheaper flagship handset that tries to be a more mainstream big-screen option than its more expensive stablemate, the S21 Ultra. The new Android phone has an RRP of £949 – making it …

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Car ran off road and hit a tree north of Houston, before bursting into flames, local media says Two men died after a Tesla vehicle, which was believed to be operating without anyone in the driver’s seat, crashed into a tree north of Houston, authorities said. “There was no one in the driver’s seat,” Sgt …

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Fall comes amid warnings over speculation by novice investors in cryptocurrencies such as Dogecoin Bitcoin has posted its biggest one-day drop in almost two months, amid warnings that novice investors could suffer heavy losses from speculating in crypto assets such as “meme coin” Dogecoin. Bitcoin tumbled over 11% on Sunday, dropping from around $62,000 to …

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When groups of sinister drones began hovering over homes in America’s Midwest, the FBI, US Air Force and 16 police forces set up a task force. But the drones vanished. Did they even exist? At twilight on New Year’s Eve, 2020, Placido Montoya, 35, a plumber from Fort Morgan, Colorado, was driving to work. Ahead …

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The miraculous machines had taken us to the moon the year before, surely now they could guess the outcome of a few football matches A computer with less power than your phone had sent men to the moon in 1969, so getting one to predict the 1970 Mexico World Cup winner for the Observer Magazine …

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The MIT researcher says that for humans to flourish we must move beyond thinking of robots as potential future competitors Dr Kate Darling is a research specialist in human-robot interaction, robot ethics and intellectual property theory and policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. In her new book, The New Breed, she …

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The Indian leader’s autocratic tendencies do not seem to have posed great ethical difficulties for Facebook and Twitter For decades, India was a poster child for democratic development: a poor, sprawling, ethnically diverse country that nevertheless had regular elections and peaceful transfers of power – the hallmarks of a functioning democracy – albeit with the …

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