Mar 30, 2023 | Mobility, Smart Cities, Transit
Cities, campuses and airports are some use cases the companies envision for providing “safe, equitable and accessible” AV service. May Mobility, an autonomous vehicle technology developer, and Stantec, a design and engineering firm, announced a partnership Tuesday to...
Mar 30, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured
Just as millions of people have begun to use artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT, an array of prominent scientists and tech leaders say it’s time to hit the brakes. Tesla founder Elon Musk, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, and former Democratic...
Mar 30, 2023 | Coal, Energy, Featured, Renewable Energy
Electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal in the United States for the first time in 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced Monday. Renewables also surpassed nuclear generation in 2022 after first doing so last year. Growth in wind and...
Mar 23, 2023 | Astronomy, Featured, Satellites
Astronomers are becoming increasingly concerned about light pollution in the night sky caused by the growing number of satellites, and also space junk, in low-Earth orbit. Sunlight reflecting off the surfaces of the satellites and junk negatively impacts the...
Mar 23, 2023 | Business, Car Sharing
There are many new models of car use and ownership being explored. Upshift is a San Francisco startup offering what it calls fractional car subscription — a type of car-share, though they don’t call it that. Customers pay a fee to have a car for 8 days per month, for...
Mar 23, 2023 | Computer Vision, Drones
A drone is flying over a herd of plains zebras in central Kenya. It is flying quite high so that the animals are not bothered by it. These zebras are really interesting for collective and spatial behavior studies, according to the researchers Ben Koger and Blair...
Mar 23, 2023 | Autonomous Vehicles, Safety
Apple is continuing its autonomous vehicle testing in California with the latest data showing it has added more drivers. The new report shows more than 200 people authorized to support the operation of its 67-vehicle test fleet with one very minor collision happening...
Mar 23, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence, Entertainment, Featured
The Writers Guild of America has proposed allowing artificial intelligence to write scripts, as long as it does not affect writers’ credits or residuals. The guild had previously indicated that it would propose regulating the use of AI in the writing...
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