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How Amazon Demand Drives Autonomous Truck Tech [VIDEO]
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Self-driving and semi-autonomous trucks could help fill the the major trucking shortage of 898,000 faced by America’s trucking industry.
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The FCC Has Collected Just $6,790 Of $208 Million It Has Fined Robocallers
The Federal Communications Commission has been fighting what seems like a never-ending battle against robocallers for the last several years. Of the $208 million in fines that they have levied against illegal automated callers, they have only collected about $6,790, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Read moreNASA Is About To Test A Solar-Powered Drone That Broadcasts 5G
…the experimental solar-powered drone can beam 5G connectivity to anywhere in the world.
Read moreChina Plans To Build Space Solar Station [VIDEO]
Chinese scientists have revealed plans to build and launch in orbit a space solar station that could capture the Sun’s rays 24/7.
Read moreSnopes & AP Suddenly Quit As Facebook Fact-Checkers
Two of Facebook’s four fact checkers, Snopes and the Associated Press, have abruptly ended their fact-checking relationship with the social media giant. The announcement comes on the heels of a December report that the two-year relationship between Facebook and its fact checkers was in disarray.
Read moreFacebook Slides After Report Claims 50% Of Its Users Are Fake
In a report published Thursday by PlainSite, analysts calculated that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been regularly lying to investors and the public about the company’s user metrics, and that the company could be overestimating the number of users by as much as 50%.
Read moreWatch Robot Dog Deliver A Package From Autonomous Shuttle [VIDEO]
At CES 2019, the transport firm Continental pushed the boundaries of autonomous vehicle technology, showed how a driverless utility van could be used to stage and deploy delivery robot dogs, taking packages from the vehicle to a customer’s doorstep. Automating the last mile serves as a warning that thousands of gig-economy jobs are about to be eliminated…
Read moreNASA’s Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space [VIDEO]
For the second time in history, a human-made object has reached the space between the stars. NASA’s Voyager 2 probe now has exited the heliosphere (the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by the Sun) and entered Interstellar Space. Voyager 2 is now slightly more than 11 billion miles from Earth.
Read moreListen To Martian Wind: In Historic First, NASA Captures Audio Of Mars Surface [VIDEO]
What does Martian wind sound like? Now we know as for the first time in history sound has been recorded on another planet’s surface.
Read moreThe FCC is Right: Cities are Delaying 5G
The cost of 5G deployment is already high, but some big cities are making it worse by charging telecommunications providers ridiculous fees just to attach wireless equipment to electric poles.
Read moreSocial Media Linked To Loneliness And Depression, New Study Finds
The most recent study linking poor mental health conditions to social media use has added even more evidence to back up the theory “Using less social media than you normally would lead to significant decreases in both depression and loneliness. These effects are particularly pronounced for folks who were more depressed when they came into the study. It is a little ironic that reducing your use of social media actually makes you feel less lonely,”
Read moreGoogle Concealed Data Breach Over Fear Of Repercussions; Shuts Down Google+ Service
Google opted not to disclose to users its discovery of a bug that gave outside developers access to private data because, they stated, it found no evidence of misuse. However, in response to being busted, Google is set to announce broad privacy measures which include permanently shutting down all consumer functionality of Google+ which “effectively puts the final nail in the coffin of a product that was launched in 2011 to challenge Facebook, and is widely seen as one of Google’s biggest failures.”
Read moreAstronomers Find First Evidence of Possible Moon Outside Our Solar System [VIDEO]
Using NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, astronomers have uncovered tantalizing evidence of what could be the first discovery of a moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system.
Read moreWatch: Japanese Rovers Record First Video Ever Shot On Asteroid’s Surface
A pair of Japanese rovers have sent back a group of photos and the first-ever video recorded on the surface of an asteroid.
Read moreYou Gave Facebook Your Number For Security. They Used It For Ads
A group of academic researchers found that Facebook harvests user phone numbers for targeted advertising instead of for security purposes, contrary to Facebook representatives’ own previous statements.
Read more1 In 4 Facebook Users Delete Facebook App As Millennial Exodus Continues
Americans’ relationship with Facebook has shifted to “It’s Complicated.”
Read moreRobots Won’t Take Our Jobs—But They Will Make Us Like Our Jobs More
Precisely because “robots” will erase so much of its drudgery, work will be about humans showcasing their unique skills and intelligence.
Read moreWill Autonomous Vehicles Drive Us Into Endless Sprawl?
It won’t be AVs that single-handedly bring about that future on their own.
Read moreMicrosoft Rolls Out “Election Defense Technologies”
The new feature is part of Microsoft’s “Defending Democracy Program”
Read moreSpacecraft With Revolutionary Heat Shield Will “Touch The Sun”
The closest that planet Mercury ever gets to the sun during its orbit is approximately 29 million miles, allowing surface temperatures to reach 800 degrees Fahrenheit (430 °C). And Earth’s average distance to the sun is 93 million miles. But, NASA has unveiled a “cutting-edge heat shield” that will make it possible for a space probe to “touch the sun” — or at least get a spacecraft to within 4 million miles of it…
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