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Why Mercedes, General Motors, and Google Are Pushing AI For Cars
Technology tamfitronics If you’ve been covering car technology as long as I have—30-plus years—you see and hear about more than your share of vaporware. Remember when everyone from GM’s Mary Barra to Elon Musk said we’d have self-driving cars by 2020? I do. Half a decade later only Google’s Waymo is delivering on that promise.So I was skeptical last week when at semiconductor supplier Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, it showed off a slew of AI-enhanced future features for cars to celebrate the introduction of its latest silicon for software-defined vehicles (SDVs). One was head-up display style translucent overlays that show information such as a museum’s hours and admission price in a driver’s field view as they pass by. It also showed similar popups that remind young passengers in the back seat of a school...
Bandits raid general hospital in Northern state, abduct women
Politics tamfitronics Some yet-to-identified bandits operating in Katsina State have raided the Kurfi General Hospital in Kurfi Local Government Area of the state. The bandits reportedly shot at a security guard at the hospital and abducted the wife of a health worker and three other women.Sources who spoke on the incident said the health worker was on duty and his wife usually joins him to avoid staying alone at home.According to a source, the bandits invaded the facility at about 10 am unarmed.They were stopped by the guard and an argument ensued when unknowingly to the security operative that other armed bandits were close by.The source added that while the guard tried to lock the gate of the hospital, the armed bandits broke the barrier and gained access to the hospital to complete their operations.“They...
Surgeon General Was Warned by His Mom to Avoid Politics, but He Jumped Into the Fray
Politics tamfitronics The dated gold and silver trophies packed in the china cabinet of the childhood home of Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, still boast the surgeon general's...
What we learned from the UK’s general election that will shape politics over the coming years
Politics tamfitronics LONDON (AP) — The U.K. has its first change in government in 14 years after the Labour Party won a landslide victory early Friday in a general election that saw the Conservative Party suffer its biggest defeat ever.The new government faces huge challenges, including fixing the country’s sluggish economic and social malaise resulting in part from the U.K’s exit from the European Union, the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and several Conservative Party scandals.Here are some things we learned:Politics tamfitronics A fraying two-party systemFor the past 100 years, Britain’s two...