Tesla cars store a lot of data that can help with investigations into traffic accidents and criminal cases. The data can be decrypted and read. Researchers found out that the car manufacturer has to gather all the information about the vehicle speed, the position of the accelerator pedal, the steering wheel, the brake control and the effect of the so-called …
Did Amazon’s management lie to the U.S. Congress? This question is central to a letter from five members of the US House of Representatives Judicial Committee. The letter writers claim that the top of Amazon, including Jeff Bezos, misled or lied to Congress. Documents showed last week that a group of Amazon employees found out which products from sellers were …
Apple has removed a commonly used app with texts from the Quran from the Chinese App Store. The Chinese government has asked for this, tells Apple. Apple had to remove the app because it would contain illegal religious texts. The company does not say what texts are meant by this. The Chinese government has not responded to questions. The app …
Facebook has identified four thousand people and groups as ‘dangerous’ and put them on a black list. These include militarized movements, alleged terrorists and hate groups. This is clear from reports from The Intercept, who published the list. People and groups on the list are not welcome on Facebook. Nearly a thousand groups on the list are “militarized social movements”. …
Almost one in five healthcare workers in the US, 18 percent to be exact, have quit since the pandemic began. Almost a third, 31 percent, thought about quitting their health care job for good. This is the result of a poll conducted by The Morning Consult bureau. As a reason to resign, the health workers mention the low salaries, a …
A federal jury in San Francisco ordered Tesla to pay $ 137 million damages to former black employee Owen Diaz for dealing with a racist work environment. Diaz worked as a temporary worker at the Tesla plant in Fremont in Northern California in 2015 and 2016. Tesla would not have prevented an employee from being treated racially. The jury concluded …
A new airline starts at the end of October: Aha! The company is founded by ExpressJet, which previously operated regional flights for United Airlines, and is based at Reno-Tahoe Airport in Nevada. Aha! stands for Air-Hotel-Adventure. The new airline focuses on tourists coming to Nevada, and wants to offer package tours together with hotels and casinos. The newcomer will fly …
The involvement of the US police in the deaths of over seven thousand people in recent years is not mentioned in official statistics. This is one of the conclusions of a study by the University of Washington published in The Lancet medical journal. The researchers compared information from death certificates with data from organizations that collect information about deaths from …
The American truck manufacturer Paccar, parent company of DAF, has started a trial in the United States with self-driving trucks. In partnership with logistics and transport company FedEx, autonomous driving trucks are deployed on the route between Dallas and Houston. The distance between the cities is about 300 miles. Paccar started a collaboration with technology company Aurora, which specializes in …
STEM is FEM is a charity initiative founded two years ago with the goal to popularize STEM education among Ukrainian high school girls. The initiative unites different activities, such as educational modules on technical topics, webinars, and exhibitions. One of the co-founders of STEM is FEM is Sergey Tokarev, investor of the technology company Roosh. He describes the impact of …
