For the last two years, the Google IT Support Professional Certificate has been equipping learners around the world with the fundamentals needed to jumpstart new careers in information technology (IT). To celebrate the 2-year anniversary of the program, we’re excited to announce that Google has expanded its IT training to help you take the next […]
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Killer Robots Reconsidered: Could AI Weapons Actually Save Lives?
“On the surface, who could disagree with quashing the idea of supposed killer robots?” writes Slashdot reader Lasrick. “Dr. Larry Lewis, who spearheaded the first data-based approach to protecting civilians in conflict, wants us to look a bit closer.” From the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:
The proponents of a UN ban are in some respects raising a false alarm. I should…
Welcome To Walmart. The Robot Will Grab Your Groceries.
Walmart is testing back-of-store automated systems that can collect 800 products an hour, 10 times as many as a store worker. From a report: In the backroom of a Walmart store in Salem, N.H., is a floor-to-ceiling robotic system that the country’s largest retailer hopes will help it sell more groceries online. Workers stand on platforms in front of screens assembling…
Huawei Unveils OpenEuler, CentOS-Based Linux Distribution
New submitter profi shares a report from Computing: Huawei has released the source code of openEuler, its distribution of Linux based on CentOS. The operating system was formally launched by Huawei in September 2019 in response to U.S. sanctions, which had briefly affected the company’s access to Windows and Android operating systems. The source code has now been published on Gitee,…
Fast Retailing, the World’s Third-Largest Retailer, Says It’s Cracked the Final Barrier To Full Automation
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Los Angeles Times: There was only one job that robots could not do when Fast Retailing, the owner of Uniqlo, replaced 90% of its workers with robots at its flagship warehouse in Tokyo last year. But now, with the help of a Japanese start-up called Mujin, the world’s third-largest retailer says it has cracked…
The Navy’s Flawed Bridge Technology Set the USS McCain Up For Disaster
schwit1 writes: [ProPublica] outlines in detail the causes behind the crash in 2017 of the USS McCain and an oil-tanker that killed ten sailors and injured many others. It is a horror story of a bankrupt Navy upper management that seemed more in love with cool computer software and automation than making sure the Navy’s ships and its crews can function…
Are ‘Advanced Driver Assistance Systems’ Making Us Worse Drivers?
An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet: Advanced driver assistance systems are becoming on the norm even on midlevel cars. For safety advocates that seems like good news: Systems designed to prevent crashes should, after all, result in fewer crashes. But what if that thinking is flawed? A new report from AAA suggests that might be the case and that our increasing use…
GM Car Executive Says Self-Driving Cars Are the Only Way Forward
jmcbain writes: In a blog post last week, Dan Amman, the CEO of Cruise Automation (General Motors’ electric self-driving car division), laments the pollution, waste of space, accidents, and cost of cars as we know them today. He says “here we are, living in a state of cognitive dissonance with exactly this — the human-driven, gasoline-powered, single-occupant car — as our…
College-Educated Workers Are Taking Over the American Factory Floor
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Wall Street Journal: New manufacturing jobs that require more advanced skills are driving up the education level of factory workers who in past generations could get by without higher education, an analysis of federal data by The Wall Street Journal found. Within the next three years, American manufacturers are, for the first time,…
Den Automation Raised Millions To ‘Reinvent’ the Light Switch. Now It’s Lights Out For Startup
Den Automation, the once-promising UK smart home startup that raised nearly $5.8 million via equity crowdfunding and boasted former Amstrad chief Bob Watkins as CEO, has agreed to go into liquidation, The Register reported Tuesday. From the report: Documents seen by this publication show Wilkin Chapman Business Solutions Limited has been appointed as liquidators, with Ian Michael Rose and Karen Tracey…