Artificial Intelligence

Mercedes-Benz has placed a paywall that costs $1,200 a year in front of some electric vehicles’ full performance. Although many people have criticized the company, it claims that the “Acceleration Increase” will “unleash enhanced performance” of its Mercedes-EQ EQE and Mercedes-EQ EQS vehicles. The price range for the aforementioned vehicles …

Following a record daily high of COVID-19 cases, China has enacted a new round of lockdowns. On Wednesday, November 23, mainland China recorded over 31,000 COVID-19 cases, according to state media. Though still lower than the UK and the US, that is an increase from the previous record high of …

Elon Musk, the brand-new owner of Twitter, has submitted a significant user safety decision to a Twitter vote for the second time in this month. The question “should Twitter grant a universal amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not breached the law or participated in severe spam?” was …

Users will soon be able to schedule posts on LinkedIn to publish at a later time. According to at least one online report from web developer and app researcher Nima Owji back in August, the Microsoft-owned social network has apparently been testing the new feature internally for a number of …

Independent legal analysis of the Online Safety Bill, a contentious UK government proposal to regulate online speech under a safety-focused framework, says the draft bill contains some of the broadest mass surveillance powers ever proposed in a Western democracy and also warns that they pose a risk to the integrity …

According to Mobilegamer.biz, Netflix has posted more than a dozen job openings for its Los Angeles office of Netflix Games Studio on its website. We can learn a little bit about the company’s plans for the new studio from these listings. Netflix is specifically looking for a game director to …

One person was killed when a driver smashed through the Apple Derby Street retail store in Massachusetts. The driver claimed that the incident was a “unfortunate accident” rather than an attack. On Monday morning, 52-year-old Bradley Rein crashed his Toyota 4Runner through the front glass of the Apple Store in …

Soft robots with biological inspiration make a lot of sense in many different contexts, but they are not without drawbacks, just like any other category of technology. These flexible constructions, among other reasons, may find it difficult to move as quickly as their more rigid counterparts. An additional source of …

The Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT is working on a challenging effort to create self-assembling robots. Although the team acknowledges that the creation of an autonomous self-building robot is still “years away,” their effort has so far produced promising outcomes. Voxels, a term taken from computer graphics, are …

PewDiePie, a pseudonym for Swedish YouTuber Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, is no longer the most well-liked creator on the site. PewDiePie, who is best known for his YouTube videos in which he reviews and plays video games, became the first person to reach 100 million subscribers on the platform in …