Las Vegas has run three self-driving vehicle trials since 2017
The first trial's shuttle crashed within two hours of its 2017 debut. Police cited the lorry driver, not the shuttle, for the crash.
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London's driverless taxis still carry a human safety driver
Waymo and Wayve are testing driverless cars in London, but a trained safety driver still rides along until regulators sign off.
A warehouse robot's job is carrying, not picking
A warehouse robot spends its shift moving pallets, totes, and shelves under a routing system, while a person still handles most single items.
The EU's GDPR replaced a law from when 1% of Europe was online
The EU's GDPR replaced the 1995 Data Protection Directive. It kept most of the old principles, added accountability, and set fines of up to 4% of revenue.
In a California lab, a wooden block became the mouse
Douglas Engelbart's team at Stanford Research Institute tested a cannonball trackball, a joystick and a light panel. A wooden box on wheels beat them all.
Anthropic's alignment lead puts AI extinction risk above 10%
In a 2024 survey of nearly 3,000 AI researchers, over half put the odds of AI causing human extinction or disempowerment at 10 per cent or more.
Why humanoid robots still struggle with balance and hands
A humanoid must balance on two legs, match a human hand and learn from demonstration. Figure and Tesla are trying, and Rodney Brooks sees a bubble.
Patent trolls make money by threatening suits, not products
A patent troll buys patents it never uses, then threatens costly lawsuits until targets pay. IP Nav says its fees topped $700m.
Apple unveils the iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max and first foldable
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max go on sale September 18. The foldable iPhone Duo follows on October 23, at new chief John Ternus's first launch.
How to clear your cache in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge
Clearing a cache slows one page load, but clearing cookies signs you out everywhere. Steps for four browsers, an iPhone, and one misbehaving app.
Employers are retraining staff instead of hiring AI engineers
Job postings for generative AI skills rose 1,848% in 2023, and companies short of engineers to hire are retraining the staff they already have.
Half the mining power lets one party rewrite a blockchain
A miner with more than half a blockchain's computing power can build a longer chain, undo its own payments, and spend the same coins twice.
Fei-Fei Li built ImageNet while her field doubted data
Colleagues told Fei-Fei Li her plan to label 14 million images went too far. Three years after its release, it helped set off the deep learning boom.
Why AI's water use is so hard to pin down
AI uses water mostly to cool data centre chips, but how much depends on the site, the season and the cooling design. Nobody yet agrees how to count it.
Quick Assist lets a trusted helper fix your Windows 11 PC
Quick Assist lets a friend or Microsoft support agent see and fix your Windows 11 PC remotely. Microsoft says to allow only helpers you contacted first.