https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news-room/2018/august/technic-bugatti-chiron-build-for-real/
non-glued, fully-functional and self-propelled LEGO Technic model can fit two passengers inside and accelerate to over 20km/h
at the moment, self-driving car tech doesn’t seem to be advanced enough to handle all these humans.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5nzx4/what-was-the-first-blockchain
the world’s oldest blockchain predates Bitcoin by 13 years and it’s been hiding in plain sight
Impact of high levels of toxic air ‘is equivalent to having lost a year of education’
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/28/google-china-censorship-plan-human-rights/
represents “an alarming capitulation by Google on human rights” and could result in the company “directly contributing to, or [becoming] complicit in, human rights violations.”
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/24/fortnites-android-installer-shipped-with-an-epic-security-flaw/
[made] Fortnite available for Android via its own website instead of Google’s Play Store.
had a … security flaw in it that would allow a malicious actor to essentially install any software
https://www.adweek.com/digital/google-is-collecting-your-data-even-when-your-phone-isnt-in-use/
An idle Android device sent Google 900 data samples in 24 hours
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/technology/huawei-banned-australia-5g.html
Companies that “are likely to be subject to extrajudicial directions from a foreign government” pose unacceptable security risks, the ministers said.
The AI advances that brought you Alexa are teaching propaganda how to talk.