The internet is not easy to navigate for people with visual imparities. While there are screen reader applications to help them, often, websites or users don’t add alt text to images. In…
Trump gets suspended from YouTube for another week
Last week, YouTube suspended President Trump from its platform for seven days following the riot at the Capitol, saying a recent video on his channel had incited violence. At the time, YouTube said…
The best vampire games and mods to play until Bloodlines 2 releases later this year
Paradox Interactive’s Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 is among the most anticipated games of 2021. Unfortunately it’s been pushed back toward the second half of the year. And that’s a long time…
Google Chrome update makes it easy to fix all your weaksauce passwords
Let’s face it, we’ve all had some terrible passwords in our past. Whether it’s using the same password for every site, using some combination of personal information, or simply not using enough…
GPT-3 is the world’s most powerful bigotry generator. What should we do about it?
GPT-3 is, arguably, the world’s most advanced text generator. It costs billions of dollars to develop, has a massive carbon footprint, and was trained by some of the world’s leading AI experts…
GPT-3 has ‘consistent and creative’ anti-Muslim bias, study finds
GPT-3 has a startling ability to produce text that sounds like it was written by a human. But a new study shows it also has a worrying proclivity for anti-Muslim bias. Researchers from Stanford and…
Microsoft partners with GM to make self-driving cars a reality
Driverless car startup Cruise, a GM subsidiary, today announced the finalization of a two-billion dollar equity fund from primary investors Microsoft, Honda, and GM. Leading off: Microsoft’s money is the big ticket…
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 870 is an ‘almost-flagship’ chip for Android phones
Qualcomm has always had a confusing naming scheme for its processors, and today it’s adding to that confusion with the launch of the Snapdragon 870. It represents something of a new category…
How Bangkok’s 40,000-kilometer transport network was mapped for the first time
This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities…
US regulator approves first-ever fully autonomous commercial drone flights
The Federal Aviation Administration has approved the first-ever fully-automated commercial drone flights. The US aviation regulator has permitted American Robotics to fly its Scout quadcopter beyond the line-of-sight of human operators. In approval documents recently posted on…