“If you live in San Jose, Dallas, or Vancouver, you may soon be sharing the sidewalk with an army of delivery robots,” reports PC Magazine (citing a report from TechCrunch. Uber Eats is expanding its partnership with Serve Robotics to deploy up to 2,000 zero-emission bots: Currently covering Los Angeles Read more…
The Washington Post writes that “Some economists predict artificial intelligence technology like ChatGPT could replace hundreds of millions of jobs, in a cataclysmic reorganization of the workforce mirroring the industrial revolution. “For some workers, this impact is already here.” Those that write marketing and social media content are in the Read more…
Now more than a year into the tech “correction,” the denial phase is over. There appears to be a broad consensus that lower valuations are here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future. But for well-capitalized private companies, it can take a while for the dominos to fall. We’ve Read more…
A federal judge in Texas is now requiring lawyers in cases before him to certify that they did not use artificial intelligence to draft their filings without a human checking their accuracy. U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr of the Northern District of Texas issued the requirement on Tuesday, in what Read more…
CTV News is reporting that Meta will begin testing the blocking of news sites in Canada. If the argument is that the social media giants are unfairly benefitting from content from Canadian news organizations, this move should be moot as the ‘stealing’ would now be stopping. Unfortunately the opposite is Read more…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Japan has extended its natural disaster preparations to vending machines, which will offer free food and drink in the event of a major earthquake or typhoon. Two machines have been installed in the western coastal city of Ako, located in a Read more…
Swiss start-up Sun-Ways has developed a concept to install solar panels between train tracks, using a specially built train to “unroll” the panels during the night when fewer trains are running. As wild as it all sound, Sun-Ways actually has two competitors. Greenrail and Bankset Energy, respectively located in Italy Read more…