Motional, an autonomous driving company formed last year as a joint venture between Hyundai and Aptiv, has spilled the beans on its first commercial vehicle: an electric robotaxi. The so-called Ioniq 5 robotaxi is based on the homonymous vehicle by Hyundai, but enhanced with Motional’s driverless tech. The vehicle comes equipped with Level 4 autonomy, meaning it can operate without a human driver under certain conditions. It’s fitted with “more than 30 sensors,” including cameras, radar, and LiDAR, which provide “360-degree perception, high-resolution images, and ultra-long range detection of objects....

Hundreds of thousands of law enforcement agents in the US have the authority to use blackbox AI to conduct unethical surveillance, generate evidence, and circumvent our Fourth Amendment protections. And there’s little reason to believe anyone’s going to do anything about it. The problem is thatblackbox AI systemsare a goldmine for startups, big tech, and politicians. And, since the general public is ignorant about what they do or how they’re being used, law enforcement agencies have carte blanche to do whatever they want....

Microsoft has announced that Lync for Mac 2011 has beenreleased to manufacturing, and will begin to land in the hands of consumers starting this October. The software will be fully compatible with Lync 2010, the PC version of Lync, and Lync online. “[Now] Mac customers will be able to experience the integrated communications experience that Lync has become well-known for,”the company said. The company also stated in its post on the release that the software will grant“Mac users [an] integrated functionality for presence....

Lynk & Co.’s car sharing-owning scheme will never cost more than €500 a month You can reduce costs if you share your car among your friends and family What is it? What Lynk & Co. is, is perhaps the most confusing bit to explain. Lynk & Co. is a carmaker, it’s also a car dealer, it’s also a car sharing platform. With Lynk & Co. you can sign up to rent a vehicle for a single monthly fee that includes everything except fuel, the cars are hybrids more on that later....

Lyrica 2is a simple and light-weight Mac app fromMuffinStorythat brings the proper lyrics to your entire music collection. The app, developed by two seventeen year olds in Germany, connects to seven lyric databases that search for the correct words to each song in your iTunes library. By selecting any iTunes playlist within the app, Lyrica 2 will download and display lyrics for every song, and if it’s unable to locate a tune, there’s also an option to edit the text yourself....