Gizmodo : Environment

Drone footage captured firefighters appearing to struggle to put out the blaze.
Gizmodo : Environment

A drone operator in Houston captured video of an electric Amazon delivery van at a fulfillment center appearing to explode while firefighters worked to put out the blaze on Monday. And with the Rivian-made van’s proximity to charging stations, many car experts are wondering about similar fires that have happened…

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Tesla temporarily paused Cybertruck deliveries over an issue involving the vehicle’s large windshield wiper, according to several posters on the Cybertruck Owner’s Club forum.

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Apple says it’s shutting down Apple Pay Later, the tech giant’s “buy now, pay later” loan service, less than a year after launching the product to United States users in October 2023.

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Kimberly Gasuras doesn’t use AI. “I don’t need it,” she said. “I’ve been a news reporter for 24 years. How do you think I did all that work?” That logic wasn’t enough to save her job.

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When Disney shut down Club Penguin in 2017, millions of disgruntled fans were left without a virtual, penguin-based world to call home.

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OpenAI’s Superalignment team, charged with controlling the existential danger of a superhuman AI system, has reportedly been disbanded, according to Wired on Friday.

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Chuck E. Cheese is pulling the plug on Munch’s Make Believe Band, the animatronic robots that terrified children and their begrudging parents with musical performances for decades.

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What started as a 24-hour hackathon project last weekend could empower the open-source community to upend the smart glasses industry. Five team members built a $20 pair of smart glasses, dubbed Open Glass, that connects what you see and hear to an AI chatbot, such as Meta’s Llama 3.

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