Fisker Suspends Its EV Production

Following recent reports that Fisker has been preparing for a possible bankruptcy filing, today the embattled automaker announced that it is suspending all manufacture of its electric vehicles.“Fisker will pause production for six weeks...

C++ creator rebuts White House warning

C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup has defended the widely used programming language in response to a Biden administration report that calls on developers to use memory-safe languages and avoid using vulnerable ones such as C++...

How AI taught Cassie the two-legged robot to run and jump

Researchers used an AI technique called reinforcement learning to help a two-legged robot nicknamed Cassie to run 400 meters, over varying terrains, and execute standing long jumps and high jumps, without being trained explicitly...

What Is Google One? A Breakdown of Plans, Pricing, and Included Services

Photograph: Simon HillIn the unlikely event that 2 TB is not enough, you can increase your storage, but the option to upgrade to an even larger plan is available only for current subscribers and...

The Best Dyson Vacuums (2024): V15, V12, and More

Dyson doesn't stick to chronological order when naming its stick vacuum models. Sometimes it skips numbers, and sometimes it'll introduce a lower number as a later model than a higher number. For example, Dyson...

Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation

Reddit said ahead of its IPO next week that licensing user posts to Google and others for AI projects could bring in $203 million of revenue over the next few years. The community-driven platform...

Mechanoid brings Wasm to embedded systems and IoT

Mechanoid, an open-source framework for building WebAssembly applications on embedded systems and IoT (internet of things) devices, has been launched by software company The Hybrid Group.The Hybrid Group released Mechanoid 0.1.0 and Mechanoid 0.1.1...

This self-driving startup is using generative AI to predict traffic

While autonomous driving has long relied on machine learning to plan routes and detect objects, some companies and researchers are now betting that generative AI — models that take in data of their surroundings...

The Download: Africa’s AI regulation push, and how to fight denge

In Tanzania, farmers are using an AI-assisted app that works in their native language of Swahili to detect a devastating cassava disease before it spreads. In South Africa, computer scientists have built machine learning...

Africa’s push to regulate AI starts now        

In February, just before the AU’s AI policy draft came out, Shikoh Gitau, a computer scientist who started the Nairobi-based AI research lab Qubit Hub, published a paper arguing that Africa should prioritize the...

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