Another Tesla with Autopilot crashed into a stationary object
These systems are not sophisticated enough to distinguish a stationary object on the road from one that’s next to or above the road. To make the problem easier to handle, the cars may just ignore stationary objects
iPhones are Allergic to Helium – iFixit
https://ifixit.org/blog/11986/iphones-are-allergic-to-helium/
Like an incredibly tiny grain of sand, the helium molecules are small enough to get inside the device, physically stop the clock, and turn your phone temporarily into a paperweight.
A look at AI-related research for predicting earthquakes by using seismic data, which scientists say is similar to the audio data used to train voice assistants - The New York Times
Driverless Cars Should Spare Young People Over Old in Unavoidable Accidents
In the Moral Machine Experiment, a survey of more than two million people from 233 countries, people preferred to save humans over animals, young over old, and more people over fewer.
Portrait by AI program sells for $432,000 - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45980863
The artwork was produced using an algorithm and a data set of 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th and 20th Centuries.
Introducing 1Password for Democracy
https://blog.1password.com/introducing-1password-for-democracy/
Whether you’re running for office, ensuring elections run fairly, or protecting people’s rights, we’d like to offer you a completely free 1Password account to thank you for the essential work you do for society.
Tim Cook calls for strong US privacy law, rips “data-industrial complex”
Apple CEO Tim Cook today called on the US government to pass “a comprehensive federal privacy law,” saying that tech companies that collect wide swaths of user data are engaging in surveillance.
Quantum computers will break the encryption that protects the internet - Future-proofing the internet
U.S. Begins First Cyberoperation Against Russia Aimed at Protecting Elections - NYTimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/us/politics/russian-hacking-usa-cyber-command.html
targeting individual Russian operatives […], telling them that American operatives have identified them and are tracking their work