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1 day agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Waymo and Uber Partner to Deploy Self-Driving Trucks at Scale
It's easy to think of self-driving cars as the main battleground for autonomy. Certainly, that aspect of pilotless vehicles has gotten the most attention over the past five years or so, with companies like Waymo and Argo and Cruise generally leading the way. However, it's autonomous trucking that has the potential to really shake up the transportation industry. Today that technology is taking a big step towards mainstream.
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1 day agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Raspberry Pi Robot Maps Its World with LiDAR
Autonomous Raspberry Pi robots navigate their environment without bumping into things. Using an ultrasonic sensor, such as the HC-SR04, to detect obstacles is a fairly common tool for Pi-based robots and cars but this robot car project, created by maker and developer エス ラボ (S Lab), is going even further by mapping out a room with the help of a LiDAR sensor.
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1 day agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Starlink tells customers that a Dish 5G plan would make Starlink “unusable”
SpaceX is asking Starlink customers to help the company win a regulatory battle against Dish Network. In an email urging users to contact the Federal Communications Commission and members of Congress, SpaceX yesterday said a Dish plan to use the 12 GHz spectrum band for mobile service will cause "harmful interference [to Starlink users] more than 77 percent of the time and total outage of service 74 percent of the time, rendering Starlink unusable for most Americans."
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5 days agoCurrent Event spacepopper
‘Lightyear’ flop is a sign audiences are weary of Hollywood wokeness
Disney’s much-touted “Lightyear” came out and did surprisingly poorly after a lot of week-of-release talk about the lesbian relationship in the film.
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7 days agoCurrent Event spacepopper
OpenAI's latest AI builds a Diamond Axe in Minecraft - why it matters
In 2019, AI researchers first introduced the MineRL Challenge, which aims to teach artificial intelligence to play Minecraft. Specifically, MineRL consists of various tasks, such as finding a cave or building a house.
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10 days agoExpression spacepopper
Christian Bale on entering the MCU with Thor 4: 'I've done what? I haven't entered s---'
Don't expect the Dark Knight to be well-versed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Christian Bale claims he had no idea what the MCU was before he joined Thor: Love and Thunder. The Batman Begins star, set to make his Marvel debut as the villainous, goth-adjacent Gorr the God Butcher in the fourth instalment of the Thor franchise, shared as much in an interview with Total Film Magazine published Tuesday.
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12 days agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Boy George says British Airways made passengers wait so Victoria Beckham could get off the plane first
Boy George vowed to stop flying British Airways after he was on the same flight as Victoria Beckham. The Culture Club frontman took to Twitter on Thursday to complain that the airline allowed Beckham to leave the plane before anyone else. "Nice touch for @britishairways to leave everyone in first class waiting for steps while Victoria Beckham's car picks her up at the aircraft. Proper going to avoid flying BA for a while!" he wrote in the tweet, which has since been deleted but w...
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13 days agoHow-to spacepopper
Better Than Perfect: How to Be Excellent
Exploring the difference between perfectionism and excellencism.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Three American fighters reported missing in Ukraine
If confirmed, these would be the first US fighters captured in Ukraine since the war began in February.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Environmental groups sue Biden to block 3,500 oil and gas drilling permits
The groups said the burning of fossil fuels from oil drilling is heating the planet and damaging imperiled species like Hawaiian songbirds and polar bears.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Huge plan to map the DNA of all life in British Isles
Seventy thousand species. That’s the best guess for the tally of life, including plants, animals and fungi, found in Britain and Ireland. And it’s the target of one of biology's most ambitious projects - scientists want to map the DNA of every single one of these organisms.
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2 weeks agoUnspecified spacepopper
New study suggests envy is an adaptation that promotes intrasexual competition among women in the form of gossip
A new study published in Evolutionary Psychological Science reported that upward appearance comparison predicted increased envy among women; this, in turn, predicted willingness to spread negative – but not positive – gossip about an attractive woman.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Ukraine says it will prevail over Russia as eastern battle grinds on
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy insisted on Saturday that Ukraine would prevail in its almost four-month-long war with Russia that has become focussed on a grinding artillery slugging match over an eastern Ukrainian city.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Apple’s design is getting a little more human-friendly — sort of
Apple’s WWDC 2022 announcements lacked big, splashy new features, and Siri was largely MIA. But in the absence of Apple’s virtual assistant, we got a lot of small but potentially meaningful software updates centered around a very real individual: you. And me. Developers know us as “end users,” but we’re otherwise known as humans.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Novavax COVID vaccine heads to U.S. FDA advisory committee
Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday will consider whether to recommend Novavax Inc's (NVAX.O) COVID-19 vaccine for adults, which the drugmaker hopes can become the shot of choice among some American vaccine skeptics. Novavax's shot is a more traditional type of vaccine employing technology that has been used for decades to combat diseases including Hepatitis B and influenza.
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
A gut-invading parasite is plaguing monarch butterflies in Calif.
After rebounding from the brink of extinction, monarch butterflies are once again in crisis. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) says that from 2021-2022, California's western monarch population plummeted to less than 2,000 and flew back up to 200,000 as of this year – but researchers have discovered a new threat to the iconic migratory butterfly species.
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
New rules ban many single-use plastics in Scotland
New rules have come into force banning businesses in Scotland from providing single use plastic items such as cutlery, plates and stirrers. Polystyrene food containers and cups are also covered by the new ban as well as plastic straws and balloon sticks.
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1 month agoCurrent Event spacepopper
Farmer Says Dealer Wouldn’t Repair His Tractor Until He Filed FTC Complaint
Jared Wilson’s struggle to keep his John Deere tractors running highlights the stranglehold the company has on the people who produce America’s food.