Elon Musk Says Tesla Will No Longer Accept Bitcoin Due to Fossil Fuel Use
By: The Guardian May 13, 2021 Tesla has suspended customers’ use of bitcoin to purchase its vehicles, Elon Musk said on Wednesday, citing concerns about the use of fossil fuel for bitcoin mining. Bitcoin, the world’s biggest digital currency, fell almost 17% after the tweet to its lowest point since the beginning of March. It […]
Low-Skill Workers Aren’t a Problem to Be Fixed
By: The Atlantic April 23, 2021 Recently, I was mesmerized by a prep cook. At a strip-mall Korean restaurant, I caught a glimpse of the kitchen and stood dumbfounded for a few minutes, watching a guy slicing garnishes, expending half the energy I would if I were doing the same at home and at […]
Walmart Sidelines Robots to Cater to Pandemic Shopping Trends: Report
By: Fox Business April 21, 2021 Retail giant Walmart is doing away with some of its automated technology that was designed to make the online ordering and pickup process easier for customers, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The retailer is shifting away from using its pickup towers, which allowed customers who ordered online to […]
New Effort To Clean Up Space Junk Reaches Orbit
By: NPR March 21, 2020 A demonstration mission to test an idea to clean up space debris launched Monday morning local time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Known as ELSA-d, the mission will exhibit technology that could help capture space junk, the millions of pieces of orbital debris that float above Earth. The more […]
US Has ‘Moral Imperative’ to Develop AI Weapons, Says Panel
By: The Guardian January 26, 2021 The US should not agree to ban the use or development of autonomous weapons powered by artificial intelligence (AI) software, a government-appointed panel has said in a draft report for Congress. The panel, led by former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, on Tuesday concluded two days of public […]
More Than Half of UK’s Furloughed Jobs at Risk of Automation – Report
By: The Guardian December 15, 2020 More than half of furloughed jobs in the UK are at the highest risk of automation as the Covid crisis accelerates workplace technology change, driving up redundancies and inequality across the country, according to a report. The two-year commission on workers and technology, chaired by the Labour […]
Pope Francis Urges Followers to Pray That AI and Robots ‘Always Serve Mankind’
By: The Verge November 11, 2020 Pope Francis has asked believers around the world to pray that robots and artificial intelligence “always serve mankind.” The message is one of the pope’s monthly prayer intentions — regular missives shared on YouTube that are intended to help Catholics “deepen their daily prayer” by focusing on particular topics […]
Tesla is Morphing Into More Than a Car Maker
By: Fox News November 18, 2020 Elon Musk’s Tesla is way more than just an electric-car maker, according to Morgan Stanley. That’s why the firm says the stock can continue to climb, building on its 428% advance this year, as it transforms to a software/connected vehicle services provider — the “entry ticket” to a much larger business. […]
Google’s Parent Company Is Building a Farming Robot
By: Futurism October 13, 2020 X, the moonshot project incubator run by Google’s parent company Alphabet, is working on prototype robots designed to help grow everthing from strawberries to soy beans. In a blog post, X project lead Elliot Grant discusses a new project he’s working on called “Mineral” — a suite of hardware […]