Flying taxi company Joby Aviation scoops up autonomous tech with an eye...
One company’s aim at becoming the Uber of the air is adding some rocket boosters. Joby Aviation, a California-based electric air taxi company, announced that it is acquiring the autonomy division of...
View ArticleDeepfakes aren’t only being used for harmful purposes
Deepfakes are running amok and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to detect what’s real or not online. Even after the release of high-profile deepfake detection tools from the likes of OpenAI and...
View Article$178M PacifiCorp payout will go to Oregon wildfire victims
Pacific Power, part of PacifiCorp, said Monday it has agreed to a $178 million settlement with over 400 Oregon plaintiffs in the latest multimillion-dollar payout related to the deadly 2020 wildfires...
View ArticlePsychedelic drug MDMA could be ‘a new avenue of treatment’ as FDA begins its...
A panel of advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will meet on Tuesday to discuss a therapy based on the psychedelic drug MDMA for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The...
View ArticleNo, stimulus checks are not coming from the IRS or California in 2024. Don’t...
Who wouldn’t want another stimulus check? The government checks were a big help to many families during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) oversaw—and...
View ArticleCan ‘deadbot’ AI tech alleviate your grief? Here’s what researchers say
When Michael Bommer found out that he was terminally ill with colon cancer, he spent a lot of time with his wife, Anett, talking about what would happen after his death.She told him one of the things...
View ArticleMexico’s new president is a climate scientist. Here’s what that could mean...
Climate change has never been more obvious in Mexico. A brutal heat wave over the past several weeks killed dozens of people. Howler monkeys fell out of trees, dead from heatstroke. Nearly two-thirds...
View ArticleNearly half of Americans reject EVs, in a blow to the Biden administration’s...
Many Americans still aren’t sold on going electric for their next car purchase. High prices and a lack of easy-to-find charging stations are major sticking points, a new poll shows.About 4 in 10 U.S....
View ArticleU.S. job openings fall to three-year low in April
U.S. job openings fell more than expected in April, pushing the number of available jobs per job-seeker to its lowest in nearly three years as labor market conditions soften in a manner that could...
View ArticleAI startup Cohere raises $450 million from Nvidia, Salesforce, Cisco, and more
Canadian AI startup Cohere has raised $450 million in funding from returning investors such as Nvidia and Salesforce Ventures, as well as new investors including Cisco and Canadian pension fund PSP...
View ArticleOpenAI insiders’ latest open letter is a warning against AI. Will anyone...
Another day, another open letter: Current and former staff members at OpenAI and a handful of other companies issued on Tuesday a warning about growing recklessness and secrecy at some of the world’s...
View ArticleMusk reportedly orders Nvidia to ship AI chips slated for Tesla to X and xAI
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has told Nvidia to prioritize shipments of AI processors to his companies X and xAI over the electric-vehicle maker, CNBC reported on Tuesday. The news signals Musk is giving...
View ArticleTesla shareholders are getting out. Wall Street hasn’t written off the stock
Some of Tesla’s institutional shareholders are getting out, convinced that the electric carmaker’s days of dizzying growth are in the rearview mirror. The company’s shares are down nearly 30% this...
View ArticleThese solar panel makers will be the government’s go-to vendors for climate...
Two of the world’s biggest solar panel makers, First Solar and Hanwha Qcells, are the first to register products under an environmental ratings system that will make them preferred in U.S. government...
View ArticleMicrosoft aims to improve customer service call centers with AI
Microsoft on Tuesday said it will introduce new artificial intelligence tools for customer service call centers. Microsoft, which has backed ChatGPT creator OpenAI, is taking AI technology into a...
View ArticleMexico’s first woman president was elected 5 years after it started requiring...
On Sunday, Mexico elected its first female president ever, Claudia Sheinbaum. The soon-to-be world leader is a physicist with a doctorate in energy engineering, and was a part of the United Nations...
View ArticleUN calls for ‘godfathers of climate chaos’ fossil fuel companies to get taxed...
U.N. Secretary General António Guterres called Wednesday for a “windfall” tax on profits of fossil fuel companies to help pay for the fight against global warming, decrying them as the “godfathers of...
View ArticleThe Olympics are the next target in Russia’s disinformation war
We’re sadly accustomed to Russia interfering in our elections. An October 2023 U.S. government report warned Moscow tried to undermine public confidence in 11 elections across nine democracies between...
View ArticleMonotype joins academic group the Readability Consortium to make the internet...
From a tiny serif flourish to the distance between an “a” and a “b,” the way that a font is designed can have a major consequences for how easy it is to comprehend. That’s something The Readability...
View ArticleHow do you remember to remember? Here are hacks to improve your prospective...
Have you ever walked into a room and then wondered why you went there? If you’ve experienced this phenomenon, you’ve had a prospective memory lapse. Memory usually means remembering things that have...
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