Mercedes-Benz Gets Approved for Level 3 Autonomous Driving in Germany Mercedes-Benz has secured approval from the German Federal Motor Transport Authority (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt) for its advanced DRIVE PILOT system, enabling conditionally automated driving (SAE Level 3) ... 12/23/2024 - 1:26 pm | View Link
Glimpse Wisk’s under-assembly autonomous air taxi prototype Wisk Aero has shared new images of the first full-scale prototype of its autonomous Gen6 air taxi. 12/20/2024 - 9:56 am | View Link
Fullerton College’s Drones And Autonomous Systems Degree Takes Flight Fullerton College's Drones and Autnomous Systems Degrees provides essential skills up to advanced training in systems and logistics, preparing for an autonomous future. 12/13/2024 - 7:58 am | View Link
Airlines, banks, casinos, package deliveries, and emergency services around the world are recovering today from what could be "the largest tech outage in history." the root cause was not a foreign agent but linked back to a software update issued by a u-s based cybersecurity firm called "Crowd Strike." Could this have been avoided?
In London, a mobile phone is stolen every 6 minutes. "If I steal your phone, I'm stealing a thousand dollars," says digital identity expert David Birch. But "If I can get into your bank account, I can steal $100,000. So that's what they really want." So there are important steps to take immediately - including turning off message preview.
"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."
Fareed hosts a spirited debate on the House bill that could lead to a US ban on TikTok, with the American Enterprise Institute's Kori Schake and Glen Gerstell, former general counsel for the National Security Agency. They discuss national-security risks the Chinese-owned app might pose given its many American users.
A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an "extinction-level threat" to humans, and that the US must intervene. "I think we should be mindful of it," says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he adds, "there have been big inventions in the past - the printing press, electricity, the internet - all of these have been a decried for the possibility of nefarious activity."