Month: August 2024
Uber teams up with Cruise to deliver more autonomous rides next year
Uber has signed up another robotaxi company to offer driverless rides inside its app. Starting sometime next year, for “qualifying” rides, Uber will give you the option to take the trip in one of Cruise’s autonomous vehicles. The two companies announced a “multiyear strategic partnership” on Thursday. Cruise halted its…
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How Electric-Vehicle Battery Fires Happen—and How You Should React
Here’s everything you need to know about lithium-ion battery fires in EVs and what you can do to stay safe if one starts in your car. Source
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DC’s antitrust suit against Amazon is back from the dead
An appeals court has revived the District of Columbia’s antitrust case against Amazon, which the District claims illegally drives up prices on rival platforms. In a decision on Thursday, the DC Court of Appeals ruled that the District’s allegations “plausibly suggest” that Amazon already has monopoly power over online marketplaces…
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Google is shoving its apps onto new Windows laptops
Google is making a new desktop app called Essentials that packages a few Google services, like Messages and Photos, and includes links to download many others. The app will be included with many new Windows laptops, with the first ones coming from HP. The Essentials app lets you “discover and…
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The Lord of the Rings anime looks appropriately epic in first trailer
A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and ruthless Dunlending lord seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm and his people to make a daring last stand in the ancient stronghold of the Hornburg — a mighty fortress that will later come to be known as Helm’s…
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The telecom company that allowed a Biden deepfake scam will have to pay the FCC $1m
Lingo Telecom has been ordered to pay a $1 million civil penalty by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after it relayed a falsified robotic recording of a President Biden voice message urging voters not to turn up to the New Hampshire primary, labelling it a ‘bunch of malarkey’. The FCC…
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