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Waymo was slapped with nearly 600 parking tickets last year in SF alone

Waymo now has more than 300 driverless vehicles zipping passengers around San Francisco, but while they follow traffic laws, parking is another matter entirely. According to city records cited by the Washington Post, these rolling robots racked up 589 citations totaling $65,065 in fines last year for parking violations that ranged from blocking traffic to

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The Role of Western Digital’s Hard Drive Portfolio

Cloud storage is a key component of modern data infrastructure. The rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and big data analytics drives the need for scalable, high-performance storage solutions. To meet this demand, cloud service providers must efficiently expand their infrastructure while remaining cost-effective. However, balancing affordability, performance, and dependability

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How to unblock SpankBang for free

TL;DR: Unblock SpankBang from anywhere in the world with a VPN. The best service for unblocking porn sites is ExpressVPN. Do you want to retain access to all your favorites sites, wherever you are in the world? We’ve got you. Online restrictions exist for a reason, but there is also something to be said for

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What’s Lost When the Human Drivers Are Gone?

This week on Uncanny Valley, we look ahead into a future where driverless cars are mainstream. Source link

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Anti-aging zealot Bryan Johnson wants to start ‘foodome sequencing’

In the same way that genome sequencing determines the genetic makeup of an organism, Bryan Johnson — the investor and founder behind the Don’t Die movement — wants to start “foodome” sequencing.  “We’re going to sequence the U.S. ‘foodome,’ which means test 20% of foods that constitute 80% of the American diet based on stuff

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Is Microsoft in Hot Water With The FTC Over AI Operations Antitrust Issues?

FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson on CNBC. Source: YouTube The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will move ahead with a wide-ranging antitrust probe into Microsoft’s AI operations. Announced in the final days of the Biden administration, the Trump administration’s new FTC chair Andrew Ferguson will lead the probe. The FTC sent Microsoft a civil investigative demand late

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The Wheel of Time cast on the most anticipated relationships of Season 3

Rosamund Pike and Josha Stradowski are joined by The Wheel of Time cast and showrunner Rafe Judkins to do a deep dive of the show’s most exciting relationships of Season 3. The Wheel of Time Season 3 is now streaming on Prime Video. Source link

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These Are the 10 DOGE Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration

The SSA did not respond to a request from WIRED about what the DOGE operatives are working on inside the agency. In a Tuesday meeting, United States DOGE Service (USDS) administrator Amy Gleason told staff that Musk-affiliated engineers and some legacy USDS workers would be headed to SSA to improve “identity proofing,” say sources who

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Sesame, the startup behind the viral virtual assistant Maya, releases its base AI model

Sesame, the AI company behind the impressively realistic voice assistant Maya, has released the base AI model powering Maya, as it recently promised. The model, which is 1 billion parameters in size (“parameters” referring to individual components of the model), is under an Apache 2.0 license, meaning it can be used commercially with few restrictions.

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UK Watchdog Slams Apple & Google for Stifling Mobile Browser Innovation

Image: borodai/Envato Elements The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority has found that Apple is restricting competition in the country by limiting the use of rival browsers on its iOS devices and effectively requiring developers to use its WebKit browser engine. This, and a number of other concerns, is “holding back innovation and could be limiting

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