One company’s aim at becoming the Uber of the air is adding some rocket boosters.
Joby Aviation, a California-based electric air taxi company, announced that it is acquiring the autonomy division of Xwing Inc., a firm that develops autonomous technology for aircrafts.
Interestingly, Joby notes that it expects that the acquisition will help bring it closer to “fully autonomous operations in the future,” per a company press release, and that the technology will “play
Deepfakes are running amok and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to detect what’s real or not online.
Even after the release of high-profile deepfake detection tools from the likes of OpenAI and Microsoft, many remain
There are 11 congressional districts considered to be toss-ups for Democrats this November, from Pennsylvania’s 7th district, occupying parts of old steel and coal country, to New Mexico’s 2nd, an agricultural region encompassing parts of the Rio Grande. But despite their apparent differences, there’s one thing these and other Democratic battlegrounds have in common: Nearly all of them are about to get a big technological
Apple’s Vision Pro might not be a huge hit with consumers so far, but the spatial computing headset has found an unlikely backer in Lowe’s. The home improvement chain has announced plans to begin using the Vision Pro in stores to let customers who are planning a kitchen renovation visualize what the changes will look like. The pilot program will begin later this month in three markets.
Joe Gebbia, the Tesla director who exited a board committee that made key decisions about the car maker’s future, told Reuters that CEO Elon Musk had discussed purchasing a house from his start-up and that he was concerned their friendship could be seized on to at
We’ve bought two Kindles for the Aamoth household in the past year and we paid full price for each. We also have, at last count: two ancient Kindle e-book readers (one from 2009!), two dust-collecting Kindle tablets, three woefully underpowered Fire TV sticks, and the first-generation Fire TV Cube—a true powerhouse in 2019, now a shell of its former self.
Why am I telling you all this? Because even though these old devices are virtually worthless, trading them in knocks 20% off the
Advanced Micro Devices unveiled its latest artificial intelligence processors on Monday and detailed its plan to develop AI chips over the next two years in a bid to challenge industry leader Nvidia.
At the Computex technology trade show in Taipei, AMD CEO Lisa Su introduced the MI325X accelerator,
China‘s Chang’e-6 lunar probe looks set to begin its historic journey back to Earth from the moon’s far side after collecting samples that scientists expect will help answer key questions about the early evolution of the solar system.
Chang’e-6, named after the mythical Chinese moon goddess, was launched on May 3 from the southern
Donald Trump has joined the popular video-sharing app TikTok, a platform he once tried to ban while in the White House, and posted from a UFC fight two days after he became the first former president and presumptive major party nominee in U.S. history to be found guilty on felony charges.
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When Medium launched in 2011, it did so with a promise to make “sharing information virtually effortless.” As its founder, former Twitter CEO Ev Williams, would quickly discover, it was not effortless. And for 13 years, the blogging platform has struggled to find its way.
And yet it could be said that our brave new world was created in its image. The creator economy is an estimated