San Francisco’s Safe Street Rebel group are disabling autonomous taxis by placing a cone on the hood of the car A group of San Francisco organizers are encouraging people to put traffic cones on the hoods of driverless vehicles as a form of protest against the cars’ expansion on city streets. A video of the …
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Ford’s Mustang Mach-E lets motorists drive hands-free in UK (T&Cs apply: motorways only; don’t look away for too long) Taking your hands off the steering wheel while driving on a busy M11 motorway in Essex at 70mph feels like a counterintuitive leap of faith. When a display flashes blue on the dashboard the moment has …
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While AI revolutionises medicine, bleaker alternatives present themselves, UN’s AI for Good conference finds Humanity is at a crossroads that might be summed up as AI for good v AI gone bad, according to a leading artificial intelligence expert. “I see two futures here,” the author Prof Gary Marcus told the UN’s AI for Good …
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Microblogging platform apparently fastest-downloaded ever, with Elon Musk threatening to sue over ‘copycat’ app • Could Meta’s Threads deal a knockout blow to Twitter? Mark Zuckerberg’s “Twitter-killer” Threads has reached 70m sign-ups in less than 48 hours, as it more than doubled its growth from its first day on app stores. The new microblogging platform …
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Mark Zuckerberg’s rival social network is first serious threat to Twitter since Elon Musk takeover If Threads truly is a Twitter-killer then it claims it is going to do it with “kindness”. Mark Zuckerberg, whose company Meta launched the rival platform this week, put forward the idea that positivity would be a big difference for …
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Foundation says words contradict reality of Instagram, which contributed to suicide of London teenager A charity launched by the family of Molly Russell has labelled Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to prioritise kindness on his new Threads app as “absurd”, as the Twitter rival raced part 30 million users less than 24 hours after launch. Molly, 14, …
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This week in artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence is either going to save humanity or finish it off, depending on who you speak to. Either way, every week there are new developments and breakthroughs. Here are some of the AI stories that have emerged in recent days. • The consumer champion Martin Lewis has urged the …
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Backhug’s 26 mechanical fingers offer personalised joint care. How much can it do for me in six weeks? Imagine having a live-in masseur available to pummel away at your aching back at the end of each day; one who never gets tired, or suggests that maybe it is time for you to return the favour. …
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Limits on number of tweets users can see have prevented National Weather Service from receiving key reports Twitter’s new volume limits on viewing posts suddenly left several National Weather Service (NWS) offices across the US unable to receive tweets from storm spotters who help with tracking extreme weather, including during storms this week – prompting …
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Exclusive: Prof Stuart Russell says technology could result in ‘fewer teachers being employed – possibly even none’ Recent advances in AI are likely to spell the end of the traditional school classroom, one of the world’s leading experts on AI has predicted. Prof Stuart Russell, a British computer scientist based at the University of California, …
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