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Tesla Wins US Trial Of Autopilot Fatal CrashTesla Wins US Trial Of Autopilot Fatal Crash

Tesla Wins US Trial Of Autopilot Fatal Crash

Victory for Tesla in first US trial that alleged its Autopilot driver system had resulted in fatal accident, and other…

1 year ago
AI Safety Summit 2023: Who Is Attending Summit At Bletchley Park?AI Safety Summit 2023: Who Is Attending Summit At Bletchley Park?

AI Safety Summit 2023: Who Is Attending Summit At Bletchley Park?

World's first AI summit begins at Bletchley Park, with PM Rishi Sunak, US Vice-President Kamala Harris, Elon Musk among those…

1 year ago
PM Rishi Sunak Outlines AI Risks, Cautions Against Rush To RegulationPM Rishi Sunak Outlines AI Risks, Cautions Against Rush To Regulation

PM Rishi Sunak Outlines AI Risks, Cautions Against Rush To Regulation

Artificial intelligence will transform lives says PM, but getting it wrong could make it easier to build chemical or biological…

2 years ago
Cruise Confirms Taxi Service Suspension In San FranciscoCruise Confirms Taxi Service Suspension In San Francisco

Cruise Confirms Taxi Service Suspension In San Francisco

California Department of Motor Vehicles immediately suspends Cruise’s autonomous vehicles permits, after pedestrian is critically injured

2 years ago
Amazon Trials Humanoid Robot, Prompting Job FearsAmazon Trials Humanoid Robot, Prompting Job Fears

Amazon Trials Humanoid Robot, Prompting Job Fears

Experiment to automate a couple of Amazon warehouse in the US via the use of robots, has prompted job loss…

2 years ago
Five Eyes Intelligence Heads Warn Of Chinese Cyber EspionageFive Eyes Intelligence Heads Warn Of Chinese Cyber Espionage

Five Eyes Intelligence Heads Warn Of Chinese Cyber Espionage

Heads of Five Eyes intelligence agencies come together to accuse China of intellectual property theft and using AI for hacking

2 years ago
California Signs Law Requiring Firms To Report Carbon EmissionsCalifornia Signs Law Requiring Firms To Report Carbon Emissions

California Signs Law Requiring Firms To Report Carbon Emissions

Companies like Apple, Meta, Google will be forced to disclose their carbon emissions after new law signed in California

2 years ago
US Government Issues First-Ever Space Debris PenaltyUS Government Issues First-Ever Space Debris Penalty

US Government Issues First-Ever Space Debris Penalty

US FCC slaps Dish Network with first-ever space debris fine, after 20 year-old satellite fails to reach agreed 'disposal orbit'

2 years ago
Neuralink To Begin Brain Implant Trial On Paralysed PatientsNeuralink To Begin Brain Implant Trial On Paralysed Patients

Neuralink To Begin Brain Implant Trial On Paralysed Patients

Elon Musk brain-implant startup, Neuralink, gains approval to begin human trials on people dealing with paralysis

2 years ago
Engineers Create Greener Alternative To Lithium-ion BatteryEngineers Create Greener Alternative To Lithium-ion Battery

Engineers Create Greener Alternative To Lithium-ion Battery

Australian boffins develop 'proton battery' that allegedly removes the environmental challenges posed by toxic lithium-ion batteries

2 years ago
Tesla Faces Federal Probes Over Elon Musk Glass House – ReportTesla Faces Federal Probes Over Elon Musk Glass House – Report

Tesla Faces Federal Probes Over Elon Musk Glass House – Report

People living in glass houses? Two federal investigations over Tesla allegedly building Elon Musk large glass house in Texas

2 years ago
India’s Chandrayaan-3 Lands Successfully On MoonIndia’s Chandrayaan-3 Lands Successfully On Moon

India’s Chandrayaan-3 Lands Successfully On Moon

Exclusive club. India's Chandrayaan-3 becomes the first space mission to land near the south pole of the Moon

2 years ago
Russia’s First Moon Mission In Decades Ends In FailureRussia’s First Moon Mission In Decades Ends In Failure

Russia’s First Moon Mission In Decades Ends In Failure

Russia's first Moon mission since 1976 ends in failure as spacecraft spins out of control and crashes into lunar surface

2 years ago
Vietnam’s VinFast Car Maker Overtakes GM, Ford After IPOVietnam’s VinFast Car Maker Overtakes GM, Ford After IPO

Vietnam’s VinFast Car Maker Overtakes GM, Ford After IPO

Shares in VinFast surge 270 percent after IPO, valuing Vietnam’s car manufacturer ahead of Ford and General Motors

2 years ago
San Francisco Grants Self-Driving Taxi Permits For Waymo, CruiseSan Francisco Grants Self-Driving Taxi Permits For Waymo, Cruise

San Francisco Grants Self-Driving Taxi Permits For Waymo, Cruise

Blow for Uber, Lyft. Self-driving players Waymo and Cruise can now take paying passengers 24x7 in San Francisco

2 years ago

US Scientists Repeat Fusion Ignition Breakthrough

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, for a second time, repeats milestone fusion experiment that produces more energy than it consumes

2 years ago

Amazon Loses Two Key Drone Delivery Executives – Report

Two key executives in Amazon's drone delivery operation have reportedly left, in another setback for delivery venture

2 years ago

Russia To Launch First Moon Mission Since 1976

Russia set to launch first lunar lander mission since 1976 this week as it targets south pole water exploration

2 years ago

Virgin Galactic To Transport First Mother, Daughter Into Space

Mother and daughter from Caribbean set to travel into space aboard second Virgin Galactic commercial flight

2 years ago

Lawsuit By Tesla Owners Allege False Range Claims

Three Tesla owners in California launch proposed class action lawsuit against Elon Musk EV venture, alleging false range claims

2 years ago

‘Room-Temperature Superconductor Claim Triggers Investigation

South Korean researchers grab attention after breakthrough claim of a room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor

2 years ago

Tesla Investigated Over Steering Problems

New federal investigation by US safety regulator over loss of steering control in Model 3 and Model Y vehicles

2 years ago

Amazon Clinic Rolls Out Across US, As Healthcare Push Continues

Amazon's virtual doctor's surgery, known as Amazon Clinic, is now available in all 50 US states, as well as Washington…

2 years ago

Royal Mail Begins UK’s First Drone Delivery Postal Service

No more postman Pat? Drone service begins to deliver post and other items in the remote Orkney Islands, off Scotland

2 years ago

Toyota Looks To Lunar Water To Power Manned Moon Vehicle

Toyota building Lunar Cruiser manned moon vehicle with regenerative fuel cell that produces electricity from sunlight and lunar water

2 years ago

UK Selected For Battery Gigafactory For Jaguar Land Rover EVs

Tata Group, the Indian owner of Jaguar Land Rover, has selected Somerset in the UK to build a £4 billion…

2 years ago

India Launches Chandrayaan-3 Lunar Landing Mission

India's ISRO launches Chandrayaan-3 mission to put lander and rover on Moon's south pole, following failed 2019 attempt

2 years ago

Anthropic Opens Rival AI Chatbot To Public

Challenge to OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google Bard, after Anthropic debuts Claude 2 AI chatbot, and opens it to public

2 years ago

NHTSA Squeezes Tesla For More Records In Autopilot Probe

US federal safety regulator demands updated records from Tesla, amid ongoing Autopilot safety investigation

2 years ago

Toyota Claims Battery Breakthrough For EVs

Holy grail moment? Japanese car giant Toyota claims solid-state battery charges in ten minutes and has range of 745 miles

2 years ago