Stellantis Shelves Level 3 Driver-Assistance Program Summary Reuters reports that Stellantis has put its fully developed Level 3 (L3) AutoDrive driver-assistance system on hold. Although the company said in February…
Microsoft Expands Xbox Cloud Gaming to Cheaper Game Pass Tiers Summary Microsoft is testing broader Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) access with Xbox Insiders, extending streaming to Game Pass Core and…
Microsoft Reveals Two In-House AI Models – Slashdot Summary Microsoft has unveiled two in-house AI models: MAI-Voice-1, a high-speed speech-generation model now live in Copilot, and MAI-1-preview, the company’s first…
Amtrak’s New 160mph Acela Trains Take Just As Long As the Old Ones Summary Amtrak has introduced next‑generation tilting Acela trains on the Northeast Corridor. The new sets offer a…
Florida Deploys Robot Rabbits To Control Invasive Burmese Python Population Summary The South Florida Water Management District, with University of Florida researchers, deployed 120 retrofitted toy “robot rabbits” this summer…
Nanoparticles Turn Houseplants Into Night Lights Summary Researchers at South China Agricultural University have developed a light-emitting phosphor compound that can be injected into succulent leaves to make them glow.…
Taco Bell’s AI Drive-Thru Plan Gets Caught Up On Trolls and Glitches Content summary Taco Bell’s experiment with AI voice assistants in drive-thrus has run into practical problems: glitches and…
Engineers Send Quantum Signals With Standard Internet Protocol Summary Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated, for the first time on live commercial fibre, that delicate quantum signals can…
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich Summary A 56-year-old tech industry veteran, Stein-Erik Soelberg, killed his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Eberson Adams, and then himself in…
Steam Users in the UK Will Need a Credit Card To Access ‘Mature Content’ Games Summary Valve has begun enforcing an age-verification requirement for UK Steam users under the UK’s…
