The cap specifically limits the number of licenses granted for ride-hailing purposes, though those with wheelchair-accessible vehicles will still be able to sign up. Uber claimed last week it would reach out to tens of thousands of already-licensed employees from other services to make up […]
Month: August 2018
This robot maintains tender, unnerving eye contact
Humans already find it unnerving enough when extremely alien-looking robots are kicked and interfered with, so one can only imagine how much worse it will be when they make unbroken eye contact and mirror your expressions while you heap abuse on them. This is the […]
Why Saudi Arabia Would Want to Invest in Elon Musk and Tesla
At first blush, Elon Musk and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia may appear to be strange bedfellows. The latter is a country that owes its massive wealth to Big Oil, and the former is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur determined to “accelerate the transition to sustainable […]
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SS Great Britain: the tech bringing a 19th century wonder to life
Main image: The SS Great Britain is permanently on display on Bristol’s harborside: Credit: Adam Gasson It starts with a whiff of vomit, followed shortly by the fine aroma of horse droppings and a soupçon of sea air. These are the smells of a weeks-long […]
Ferragosto di burrasca (ma tornerà l’afa)
È come se l'Islanda battesse l'Egitto ai supplementari. Metafora calcistica per dire che da ieri (e per due, tre giorni al massimo) il freddo nordeuropeo spazzerà via l'afosa perturbazione africana. Arriva la «Burrasca di Ferragosto», come l'hanno … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #thisisnews
Intel discloses another set of processor vulnerabilities
The company has dubbed this set of flaws L1TF, or L1 Terminal Fault. It said today that two of the varieties can be mitigated with the updates available now, but the third, which only affects a subset of users — such as certain data centers […]
Finding the Goldilocks zone for applied AI
Ivy Nguyen Contributor More posts by this contributor Data is not the new oil Stop Throwing Tech At Flint. It Won’t Help. < p dir=”ltr”>While Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg debate the dangers of artificial general intelligence, startups applying AI to more narrowly defined problems such […]
One of France’s Biggest Theme Parks Is Training Birds to Pick Up Trash
Puy du Fou, the second largest theme park in France behind Disneyland Paris, is employing six rooks that are specially trained to help clean up trash. social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours
Pensioni: spunta “quota 42”, “quota 100” con 64 anni di età
Proseguono i lavori del Governo in tema di pensioni, con l'obiettivo di superare o … Pensioni quota 100, l'ipotesi di un attacco dei mercati finanziari … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit