by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Dec 8, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager—the first man to break the sound barrier and live to tell the tale—died on Monday in Los Angeles. The retired Air Force brigadier general was 97. On October 14, 1947, Yeager clambered inside the neon orange Bell X-1 with the help of a...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Dec 8, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Johnson also said Waymo’s vehicles are getting better at dealing with pedestrians.In an October video, a Waymo car was driving through a Costco parking lot crowded with pedestrians. It waited patiently until they were out of the way, then moved forward...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Dec 4, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
That set a pattern for a dynamic dance of opening and closing, based on a formula the company developed. “When we reopen our stores, we look at the virus rates in each one of the local communities that we operate in, and of course also the local rules,” says O’Brien....
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Dec 4, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Last year, when Facebook officials were hauled in front of Congress to defend their plans for a cryptocurrency called Libra, they arrived with a pitch about financial inclusion. With Libra, people anywhere in the world would have access to a common payment network,...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Dec 3, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Before joining Google in 2018, Gebru worked with MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini on a project called Gender Shades that revealed face analysis technology from IBM and Microsoft was highly accurate for white men but highly inaccurate for Black women. It helped push US...
by Fix Society Technical Solutions | Dec 3, 2020 | [Tech News], Wired
Last year Google won international acclaim when its prototype quantum computer completed a calculation in minutes that its researchers estimated would have taken a supercomputer 10,000 years. That met the definition for quantum supremacy—the moment a quantum machine...
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