Seven key swing states will determine the outcome of the presidential election this year. One spot on the map that almost certainly won’t is the Bay Area, where Democratic candidates have won all of the region’s nine counties in every presidential race since 1988.
And yet, while the politics of the Bay Area ostensibly couldn’t matter less to this race, in a lot of ways, they’ve never mattered more.
A new AI platform led by activist and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick aims to make it easier for anyone to publish—and monetize—their original stories as comics and manga.
Lumi, unveiled in beta form Wednesday, includes AI-powered tools designed to let anyone with so much as an idea develop full-fledged stories, says Kaepernick, the company’s founder and CEO. From the start, Lumi is designed to support people looking to create c
General Motors’ Cruise self-driving unit will focus its development efforts on a next-generation Chevrolet Bolt as it indefinitely delays its planned Origin vehicle that would not have a steering wheel, the automaker said on Tuesday.
In 2022, GM filed a petition with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration seeking permission to deploy up to
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday that U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s potential removal of support for electric vehicles would hurt other automakers more than the Austin, Texas-based firm.
“It would be devastating for our competitors, and it would hurt Tesla slight
In case you weren’t paying attention, the world celebrated AI Appreciation Day last week on July 16. Or, in my case, didn’t celebrate it. It seemed like a pretty silly excuse for a holiday, especially after I failed to mark National Electricity Day—the 272nd anniversary of
Meta said Wednesday it has removed roughly 63,000 accounts engaged in financial sextorion scams, a growing category of online crime in which scammers use fake accounts to dupe victims into sharing nude photos, then extort them for money. The accounts involved in the takedown were based in Nigeria, which has become a hotspot for financial sextortion, and included one coordinated network of 2,500
There are certain social media rules we can all agree on: Ghosting a conversation is impolite, and replying “k” to a text is the equivalent of a backhand slap (violent, wrong, and rude). But what about the rest of the rules? When can we really remind someone of our old Venmo request? What happens when someone tries to flirt with you on LinkedIn?
The number of satellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO) has ballooned in recent years, and the story is the same as in all popular destinations: traffic is a nightmare.
Things have become so congested that the cumulative volume of spacecraft and debris in LEO is unsustainable, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) 2024 Space Environment Report determined. Without the widespread adoption of debris mitigation tactics, the report warns that the future of space travel could be in jeopardy.
A group of five U.S. senators are demanding OpenAI submit data showing how it plans to meet safety and security commitments that it has made about its artificial intelligence systems after a growing number of employees and researchers have raised red flags about the technology and the company’s safety protocols.
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Tesla’s second-quarter net income fell 45% compared with a year ago as the company’s global electric-vehicle sales tumbled despite price cuts and low-interest financing.
The Austin company said Tuesday that it made $1.48 billion from April through June, less than the $2.7 billion it made in the same period of 2023. It was Tesla’s second-straight quarterly net income decline.
Second-quarter revenue rose 2% to $25.5 billion, beating Wall Street estimates o