A New Robo-Car Report Card Isn’t Quite What It Seems

The latest batch of autonomous vehicle developer disengagement reports—the closest thing we’ve got to a robo-report card—has just been published by the California Department of Motor Vehicles. The columns and columns of data contained therein don’t quite illuminate the secrets of the very secretive self-driving […]

Mantova, «frittelle gratis solo ai bambini italiani»: la provocazione del consigliere Luca de Marchi

«Frittelle di Carnevale gratis ai bambini, ma solo a quelli italiani». È l’ultima iniziativa del consigliere comunale di minoranza mantovano Luca de Marchi, oggi nelle file di Fratelli d’Italia ma fino a qualche mese fa aderente a CasaPound (è stato espulso dopo aver annunciato di […]

R.I.P., Opportunity Rover: the Hardest-Working Robot in the Solar System

Last night, NASA reached out one final time to the Opportunity rover on Mars, hoping the golf-cart-sized machine would phone home with good news. Since June, the robot has been unresponsive, likely because a planet-wide sandstorm coated its solar panels in dust. NASA has pinged […]

Romance scams cost more money than any other type of consumer fraud, says the Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission has released data that shows romance scams cost more money than other types of consumer fraud reported to the agency last year—and the problem is getting worse. Romance scammers target people through dating sites and apps or social media, often using […]