An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Uber is now requiring the same good behavior from riders that it has long expected from its drivers. Uber riders have always had ratings, but they were never really at risk of deactivation — until now. Starting today, riders in the U.S. and Canada are now at risk of deactivation if their rating…
Tag: safety
Help NASA decide where to land on asteroid
Citizen scientists: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission needs your help choosing its sample collection site on asteroid Bennu … and your extra eyes to look for whatever else might be interesting. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/help-nasa-choose-landing-site-asteroid-bennu-osiris-rex…
Consumer Reports: Tesla’s New Automatic Lane-Changing Is Much Worse Than a Human Driver
“Tesla’s updated Navigate on Autopilot software now lets some drivers choose whether the car can automatically change lanes without his or her input,” writes Consumer Reports — before complaining that the feature “doesn’t work very well and could create safety risks for drivers.” An anonymous reader quotes their report:
In practice, we found that the new Navigate on Autopilot lane-changing feature lagged…
Buddha Buzz Weekly: Vesak, the Buddha’s Birthday
Buddhist celebrate Vesak, Sri Lanka president pardons a Buddhist nationalist leader, and a new app offers meditation by and for people of color. Tricycle looks back at the events of this week in the Buddhist world.
The post Buddha Buzz Weekly: Vesak, the Buddha’s Birthday appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Source: https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/vesak-buddhas-birthday/…
Parents Are Spending Thousands On YouTube Camps That Teach Kids How To Be Famous
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Daily Dot: Various YouTube summer camps have begun launching across the nation, designed to turn regular elementary and middle-school-aged children into bonfire internet sensations. Per a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, parents are spending nearly $1,000 dollars a week for their children to learn how to create branded social media-related content….
Help NASA asteroid mission choose sample site using PSI’s CosmoQuest
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been at Bennu since Dec. 3, 2018, mapping the asteroid in detail, while the mission team searches for a sample collection site that is safe, conducive to sample collection, and worthy of closer study. One of the biggest challenges of this effort is that Bennu has an extremely rocky surface and each boulder presents a danger to…
How the World’s First Digital Circuit Breaker Could Completely Change Our Powered World
This week the world’s first and only digital circuit breaker was certified for commercial use. The technology, invented by Atom Power, has been listed by Underwriters Laboratories (UL), the global standard for consumer safety. This new breaker makes power easier to manage and 3000 times faster than the fastest mechanical breaker, marking the most radical advancement in power distribution since Thomas…
Microsoft Announces Xbox Content Moderation To Cut Back on Toxic Comments
As Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social platforms come under fire for enabling hateful speech, Microsoft is stepping up to thwart toxic comments among its 63 million Xbox live users. From a report: Microsoft needs to make sure Xbox players don’t hear or see content that might turn off users, or scare younger players away. Microsoft is making these moves after…
Self-Driving Trucks Begin Mail Delivery Test For US Postal Service
The U.S. Postal Service today started a two-week test transporting mail across three Southwestern states using self-driving trucks, a step forward in the effort to commercialize autonomous vehicle technology for hauling freight. From a report: San Diego-based startup TuSimple said its self-driving trucks will begin hauling mail between USPS facilities in Phoenix and Dallas to see how the nascent technology might…
Vox Sentences: Decoding the Mueller report
Source: https://www.vox.com/vox-sentences/2019/4/18/18485860/vox-sentences-mueller-report-takeaways…