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Saudi Arabia is reportedly paying up to $10,000 to Sudanese militiamen, including child soldiers, to fight in their brutal war in Yemen
Associated Press The New York Times reported on Friday that Saudi Arabia and its allies have recruited thousands of Sudanese soldiers due to their war in Yemen, such as child soldiers as young as 14 years of age. The report claims the Saudi-led coalition paid as much as $10,000 to the soldiers. A number of…
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Uber employees working on self-driving cars feel their cars are safer but their careers are stuck, according to leaked employee survey
Business Insider/Danielle Muoio Each six weeks, Uber conducts an employee survey. Business Insider has witnessed the outcomes of the most recent poll for the 1,100-employee self-driving vehicle unit introduced to employees earlier this past week. Most employees praised the unit’s renewed focus on safety as the company puts its cars back on the public road…
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Tesla says the SEC has investigated the company’s claims about Model 3 production (TSLA)
Rashid Umar Abbasi / Reuters Tesla said in a regulatory filing published on Friday that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has subpoenaed the automaker about remarks it created in 2017 about the creation of this Model 3 sedan. “The SEC has issued subpoenas to Tesla in connection with (a) Mr. Musk’s prior statement that…
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The Future Is Accelerating – Will Humans Fit In?
From Deepak Chopra, MD and P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS The star inventor, thinker, and entrepreneur has joined other voices who fear of a future dominated by supercomputers and Artificial Intelligence (AI). In a widely publicized podcast, Musk announced that Neuralink, a company he cofounded, plans to declare in a couple of months that a brain-machine…
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Blue Vision Labs becomes Lyft’s UK hub for driverless cars
Lyft has acquired London-based Blue Vision Labs to become the company’s UK hub for its ‘Level-5’ self-driving car division. Blue Vision Labs was co-founded in 2016 by Peter Ondruska, Lukas Platinsky, Hugo Grimmet, Andrej Pancik, and Bryan Baum – all graduates from the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. The company is now a…
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Elon Musk is telling customers to use an unusual loophole if they want to take a Tesla car for a three-day ‘test drive’ (TSLA)
Maurizio Pesce / Wikimedia Commons Tesla CEO Elon Musk touted on Twitter a way customers can essentially get a three-day test drive of one of the company’s electric cars. Customers who purchase a car can return it within that period for a refund. Musk was responding to a tweet by CoverGirl model James Charles, who…
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To Summon the Demon or Not To By Roger Jihao Yang
Are you familiar with all the ‘Hosts’? A current science fiction TV series ‘Westworld’ from HBO investigates a story in a fictional and a technologically innovative wild-west-themed park known as ‘Westworld’ populated with robots known as ‘Hosts’. Interacting like actual humans, the hosts are all programmed to meet the guests’ desire. The human ‘guests’ may…