Nvidia boasts in the Sacramento Bee of a truck that was able to drive a load of butter across America …the first coast-to-coast commercial freight trip made by a self-driving truck, according to the company’s press release. Plus.ai announced on Tuesday that its truck traveled from Tulare, California, to Quakertown carrying over 40,000 pounds of … Continue reading Robots Get “Butter” Driving Skills
Here’s a shocking revelation: crosswalks don’t protect pedestrians. As you maybe read here before when I joked about the fantasy crime called “jaywalking”, or wrote about cultural disparities in road safety, crosswalks are an unfair conspiracy by American car manufacturers that removed non-motorized forms of transportation (including pedestrians and especially women on bicycles) from the … Continue reading Quebec Converts Crosswalks to Pop-up Car Barriers
A series of timeline delays in another Facebook breach story seem rather strange for 2019. This breach started with a physical break-in November 17th and those affected didn’t hear about it for nearly a month, until December 13th. The break-in happened on Nov. 17, and Facebook realized the hard drives were missing on Nov. 20, … Continue reading Facebook Failed to Encrypt Data, Failed to Notice Breach, Didn’t Notify Victims for a Month
The short answer: these pardons serve to undermine democratic institutions and demonstrate “strong man” capabilities of an unaccountable leader. The longer answer: foreign military intelligence harnessing bias, a form of blind-spot no matter how intelligent the victim, can drive societal fracture and disfunction through manipulations of American sentiment. In this case a divisive issue of … Continue reading Why the White House Pardoned Convicted War Criminals