Monthly Archives: October 2022

Ford thinks driver assist is a safer bet than driverless cars, but it’s fooling itself

This update is “just the beginning” for the driver assist system, Ford says. | Image: Ford When Ford announced yesterday that it was pulling its support for Argo AI, the autonomous driving startup it had financed since 2017, it cited as one of its reasons a belief that driver-assist technology will have more near-term payoffs….

Lego to discontinue Mindstorms robot line after a 24-year run

Enlarge / The Lego Mindstorms Robot Inventor kit (51515), apparently the last of the Mindstorms series. (credit: Lego) Yesterday, The Lego Group announced it will discontinue its Mindstorms-branded products at the end of 2022, as first reported by Brick Fanatics and several other Lego fan websites. In an official statement, the company said it will…

Shutterstock and OpenAI have come up with one possible solution to the ownership problem in AI art

Gone may be the days of culturally viral stock photoshoots and accidental stock photo celebrities. The stock photos of the future may not require human models, or even human photographers. On October 25, Shutterstock announced that it was expanding its partnership with OpenAI to integrate the image generation capabilities of DALL-E into the Shutterstock platform. …

A popular medical software is failing veterans with visual impairments

The developing VA medical record system has been delayed until June 2023. DepositPhotos This article was originally featured on KHN. Sarah Sheffield, a nurse practitioner at a Veterans Affairs clinic in Eugene, Oregon, had a problem. Her patients — mostly in their 70s and beyond — couldn’t read computer screens. It’s not an unusual problem for older people,…

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