It’s been six years since Apple delivered the revolutionary, secure Face ID with iPhone X in 2017, but it’s never made its way to Macs (despite the pointless, ridiculous, just plain awful, and, now, with Dynamic Island (better), anachronistic Inelegant Kludge™ (notch) infecting Apple’s MacBook lines).\nAnd while the words “Face ID” don’t show up once, it is essentially the same result: you can prove your identity with your face, rather than a password or fingerprint.\nThe patent describes the system as using a “light pattern recognition module that may be incorporated within a computing device”.\nIt would be neatly tucked into a “notch, a circle, an ellipse, a polygonal shape, a series of polygonal shapes, a curvilinear shape or the like”.\nMacDailyNews Take: Who wants Face ID on Macs (and, at least, finally give the MacBooks’ abjectly stupid notch a raison d’être)?
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Cruise Agrees to Reduce Driverless Car Fleet in San Francisco After Crash","slug":"cruise-agrees-to-reduce-driverless-car-fleet-in-san-francisco-after-crash","publishDate":"2023-08-18 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-08-19 14:30:52.278338","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Less than a day after one of its driverless taxis collided with a fire truck in a San Francisco intersection, Cruise agreed on Friday to a request from state regulators to cut in half the number of vehicles it was operating in the city.\nOn Friday, the California Department of Motor Vehicles, which regulates the safety of the driverless cars, asked Cruise to halve the number of vehicles it was operating in San Francisco.\nThe Cruise vehicle’s collision with a fire truck the day before had injured a passenger in the driverless car.\nEarlier in the week, another Cruise vehicle got stuck in newly poured concrete on another city street.\nThe company, which now has 400 vehicles operating in San Francisco, will have no more than 50 driverless cars running during the day and 150 at night.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"EPFO Exams: NTA Catches Impersonators In Noida, Other Places Using AI-Powered Tool","slug":"epfo-exams-nta-catches-impersonators-in-noida-other-places-using-ai-powered-tool","publishDate":"2023-08-18 23:31:00+05:30","createdLocal":"2023-08-19 14:30:51.901768","feedName":"Image Recognition","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"HomeEducationEPFO Exams: NTA Catches Impersonators In Noida, Other Places Using AI-Powered ToolEPFO Exams: NTA Catches Impersonators In Noida, Other Places Using AI-Powered ToolAn NTA official said the agency had deployed AI-powered tools as part of their pre-exam and during exam initiatives to check malpractices and impersonation during the ongoing EPFO Social Security Assistant Exam.\nRepresentational Image (Pixabay)New Delhi: Several impersonators who had come to sit for the EPFO Social Security Assistant Examination at Noida, Kolkata and Roorkee exam centers, were nabbed by the sleuths of the National Testing Agency (NTA) on friday.\nFollowing the alarm, AADHAAR authentication check was initiated which disclosed the actual picture of the applicant,” the NTA said in an official statement.\nThe NTA employs AI-powered tools to curb the menace of impersonators and check malpractices in recruitment tests.\nThe Social Security Assistant Recruitment Examination for the Employees Provident Fund Organization is being conducted by NTA on 18th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd August.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"California regulator probes crashes involving GM's Cruise robotaxis","slug":"california-regulator-probes-crashes-involving-gm-s-cruise-robotaxis","publishDate":"2023-08-19 00:00:00","createdLocal":"2023-08-19 14:30:51.898604","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"A Cruise self-driving car, which is owned by General Motors Corp, is seen outside the company's headquarters in San Francisco where it does most of its testing, in California, U.S., September 26, 2018.\nThe statement from California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) came after a Cruise robotaxi was involved in a crash with an emergency vehicle in San Francisco late on Thursday, the latest accident involving the self-driving cars.\nThe two have been running robotaxi tests limited by times and geographic areas within San Francisco.\nSan Francisco will suffer serious harms from this unfettered expansion,\" he said in a statement.\nReporting by Abhirup Roy and Hyunjoo Jin in San Francisco; editing by Diane Craft and Sonali PaulOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Autonomous electric rail vehicles to be trialed in the US","slug":"autonomous-electric-rail-vehicles-to-be-trialed-in-the-us","publishDate":"2023-08-18 13:46:41+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-08-19 14:30:51.551141","feedName":"Autonomous Trucks","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Autonomous electric rail vehicles to be trialed in the USThe USA has had self-driving cars on the streets for some time so it’s only logical that trains should enjoy similar autonomy, although in this particular trial, what we think of as the ‘train’ is conspicuous by its absence.\nThe system of rail transportation has been developed by a Los Angeles-based company called Parallel Systems.\nFounded in 2020 by a group of former SpaceX engineers, the company has created battery-electric rail vehicles to move freight cleaner, safer, and more cost effectively than traditional trucks.\nThe company’s founder and CEO, Matt Soule explained: ‘The goal is to use platoons of autonomous rail cars to deliver freight on routes of about 500 miles that are typically handled by trucks today.\nThey also point out that the railroad’s closed network is ideal for autonomous technology due to it’s limited track access and centralised traffic control.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Aston Martin’s New DB12 Is a 671 HP Grand Tourer That Delivers Supercar Intensity","slug":"aston-martins-new-db12-is-a-671-hp-grand-tourer-that-delivers-supercar-intensity","publishDate":"2023-08-19 13:00:00+00:00","createdLocal":"2023-08-19 14:30:51.472287","feedName":"Connected Car","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"More than two centuries after French emperor Bonaparte’s ill-fated advance from the Côte d’Azur to Waterloo, the impact of British firepower is once again reverberating through the region—this time in the form of the new Aston Martin DB12 bombing along Europe’s Route Napoléon.\nWATCHFollowing Ferrari’s lead, Aston Martin has introduced an arsenal of chassis technology, including a Bosch six-axis motion sensor and an electronic rear differential.\nThe rear view of the Aston Martin DB12 SuppliedThe most radical improvement, though, is the new infotainment setup.\nIt lacks the sense of occasion one experiences behind the wheel of the DBS 770 Ultimate, and it’s not as charmingly raucous as its 12-cylinder sibling, either.\nBut while stablemates such as the DBS 770 Ultimate, Vantage F1 Edition, and DBX707 have a sportier edge, the DB12, which starts at $245,000, represents the company’s core.
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"Keely Hodgkinson seeks same recognition as friend Ella Toone","slug":"keely-hodgkinson-seeks-same-recognition-as-friend-ella-toone","publishDate":"None","createdLocal":"2023-08-19 14:30:51.284970","feedName":"Image Recognition","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"Hodgkinson is the fastest female two-lap runner in the world this year, having set a British record in JuneThe 800m superstar sees the World Athletics Championships, which begin in Budapest on Saturday, as a stage on which to excel like her Wigan contemporaryKeely Hodgkinson was passing Old Trafford recently when she spotted a huge image of Ella Toone, her old friend.\n“There’s a big picture there of her face,” Hodgkinson says of the England footballer.\n“It’s absolutely massive.\nI took a photograph of it and sent it to her.\nBoth would appear to be more than a decent bet for success, with Hodgkinson’s
"}}}},{"node":{"postTitle":"GM's Cruise hits a speed bump in California with autonomous driving program","slug":"gm-s-cruise-hits-a-speed-bump-in-california-with-autonomous-driving-program","publishDate":"2023-08-19 09:30:01-04:00","createdLocal":"2023-08-19 14:30:50.457341","feedName":"Autonomous Vehicle News","postSummary":{"childMarkdownRemark":{"html":"The state agency said it is also investigating other recent incidents involving Cruise vehicles in San Francisco.\nThe state agency has the right to suspend or revoke testing and/or deployment permits if a determination is made that there is an unreasonable risk to public safety.\nThe agency said the primary focus of the regulations is the safe operation of autonomous vehicles and safety of the public who share the road with the vehicles.\nCruise AVs have the ability to detect emergency sirens, which increase their ability to operate safely around emergency vehicles and accompanying scenes.\nThe Cruise AV did identify the risk of a collision and initiated a braking maneuver, reducing its speed, but was ultimately unable to avoid the collision.\"
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