Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Alphabet Inc.’s Google considered changing its app store pricing model to circumvent a regulatory crackdown, but abandoned a proposal to charge a set fee per app…
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Toyota small car maker Daihatsu shuts down Japan factories during probe of bogus safety tests
A factory of Daihatsu Motor Co. is seen in its headquarters in Ikeda, Osaka prefecture, western Japan Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023. Toyota Motor Corp. subsidiary Daihatsu has shut down production…
US-Canada military center ‘tracks’ Santa for 68th year
The Santa tracker presented by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) dates to 1955. The joint US-Canadian military monitoring agency has continued its decades-long Christmas tradition of tracking Santa’s…
Twitter dies, X and Threads are born and AI gets personal
Characters removed from a sign on the Twitter headquarters building are piled on a street in San Francisco on July 24, 2023. A little more than a year ago, Elon…
China approves 105 online games after draft curbs trigger massive losses
People play online games in an internet cafe in Fuyang in central China’s Anhui province Friday, March 1, 2019. China’s authority in charge of press and publications has approved 105…
AI pioneer says public discourse on intelligent machines must give ‘proper respect to human agency’
Credit: CC0 Public Domain She’s an important figure behind today’s artificial intelligence boom, but not all computer scientists thought Fei-Fei Li was on the right track when she came up…
Enhancing Motor Learning with Visual-Motor Illusions
Summary: Researchers found that visual aids creating illusions of movement, like screens showing a hand’s motion, can enhance motor performance and early-stage motor learning. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy revealed distinct brain…
NASA flies drones autonomously for air taxi research
An Alta-8 small Unmanned Aircraft System testbed vehicle flies above NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Flying beyond visual line of sight from observers on the ground required special…
Artists use tech weapons against AI copycats
Artists such as Karla Ortiz in San Francisco, California, are seeking technical and legal ways to protect their styles as artificial intelligence ‘learns’ to copy works found online. Artists under…
‘Urban mining’ offers green solution to old solar panels
Workers push damaged solar panels into a machine to be recycled at the We Recycle Solar plant in Yuma, Arizona. As the world pivots from planet-warming fossil fuels to renewable…
