by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Aug 21, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Not long after the coronavirus shut down life in most parts of the country, Sarah Crawford’s weekend runs took an unusual turn, as mapped out by her Garmin watch. On April 11, her trail spelled the word HOPE in the middle of downtown Zebulon, North Carolina. The next...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Aug 21, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
When Apple first launched the iPhone in June 2007, only a few native apps were preinstalled on the phone (“native” apps being those that access the device’s hardware directly, enabling faster performance and special features like geo-location and motion detection)....
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Aug 20, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
“The challenge is there is no track record of how safe these systems are,” says Cathy Cahill, director of the University of Alaska’s Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration. “The FAA’s rules and regulations have been written in blood. And they do not want to...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Aug 18, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Sharad Agarwal has a prediction about driverless vehicles: “Autonomous public transportation is going to happen,” he says, “and it’s going to happen sooner than with taxis and cars.”Agarwal leads the North American division of EasyMile, one of several startups...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Aug 15, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Results day has a time-worn rhythm, full of annual tropes: local newspaper pictures of envelope-clutching girls jumping in the air in threes and fours, columnists complaining that exams have gotten far too easy, and the same five or six celebrities posting worthy...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Aug 14, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
In the comments, some people were angrily insisting that they were not bots and that their indignation was both human and sincere. Fair enough! But some of those people, and many others, were also in the comments accusing Ellen and Portia of human trafficking and...
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