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Authorities in Washington have determined that a Tesla that hit and killed a motorcyclist near Seattle in April was operating on the company's "Full Self Driving" system at the time of the crash.

Microsoft reported a 10% increase in quarterly profits Tuesday as it tries to maintain its position as a leader in artificial intelligence technology.

Using only on-board sensors and cameras, researcher Julián Estévez, from the Computational Intelligence Group (GIC) of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has developed low-cost, autonomous, navigation technology to prevent two or more drones whose paths cross in mid-air from colliding with each other. He has achieved positive, encouraging results.

Multipath effects, resulting from satellite signals reflecting off objects before reaching the receiver, seriously compromise the precision of satellite navigation systems. Existing solutions like Sidereal Filtering and system-specific MHMs require observations spanning at least one full cycle of satellite orbit repeat period (e.g., 10 days for Galileo) to reproduce the satellite geometry against ground stations.

Most wind turbines face the wind—and there is a good reason for that. Since the 1980s, wind turbine developers have been using what is called the "Danish concept" for their designs—three blades, positioned upwind (i.e., facing the wind), that are engineered to keep facing the wind to maximize energy production.

Connecting multiple AIs together and putting them in the body of a robot, similar to Star Wars' C-3PO or R2-D2, is the most likely way AI will become as intelligent as humans, according to a scientist from the University of Sheffield.

To measure the flow of air through a jet engine, researchers traditionally place sensors where air enters and exits.

This Earth Day, we discuss how tech and open source are helping two organizations combat the effects of a changing climate.

Git 2.45 is here with experimental support for reftables, and SHA-256 interoperability. Get our take on the latest here.

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Meta has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit accusing it of violating a Texas state privacy law with a feature for "tagging" friends in Facebook photos, according to a deal finalized Tuesday.

While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in extracting data and generating connected responses, there are real questions about how these artificial intelligence (AI) models reach their answers. At stake are the potential for unwanted bias or the generation of nonsensical or inaccurate "hallucinations," both of which can lead to false data.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) models like OpenAI's GPT-4o or Stability AI's Stable Diffusion are surprisingly capable at creating new text, code, images and videos. Training them, however, requires such vast amounts of data that developers are already running up against supply limitations and may soon exhaust training resources altogether.

Yuichi Hirose has a dream—a dream that someday everyone will have access to a machine capable of knitting furniture.

According to a veteran dev, the International Olympics Committee abandoned the partnership with Nintendo and Sega to explore other ways to bring in more money.

CEO Satya Nadella and other Microsoft execs will discuss the company's final quarter of its fiscal year 2024.

Tune in to hear what EA executives have to say about the company's latest financial quarter.

Apple's generative AI and Siri modifications are in preview now for paying developers.

The Astro Bot DualSense controller will feature a reactive touch pad and will be available for pre-order in August.