Cruise reveals wheelchair-accessible robotaxi with testing to begin next month

September 14, 2023
Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt revealed Thursday in San Francisco a prototype of a custom-built, wheelchair accessible, self-driving robotaxi and said that closed course testing of the driverless vehicle would begin in October.  The vehicle, called the Cruise WAV, is the result of three years of product design, development and testing by Cruise and GM along […]

Why Do We Let Ourselves Get Scammed?

September 14, 2023
On this week’s episode of “Dirty Money,” psychologist Christopher Chabris shares tips to avoid getting taken in by expert financial criminals.

This driverless car company is using chatbots to make its vehicles smarter

September 14, 2023
Self-driving car startup Wayve can now interrogate its vehicles, asking them questions about their driving decisions—and getting answers back. The idea is to use the same tech behind ChatGPT to help train driverless cars. The company combined its existing self-driving software with a large language model, creating a hybrid model it calls LINGO-1. LINGO-1 synchs…

Chromebooks will get updates for 10 years

September 14, 2023
Google announced today that Chromebooks will now receive automatic software updates for 10 years after the hardware platform’s release date (the platform in that case is a bit like a car platform). This move will help when it comes to increasing the longevity of those devices. The company said that users with Chromebooks released in […]