Snowmen can’t walk — but your Tesla thinks they can To be trustworthy, cars need common sense The challenges for autonomous vehicles probably won’t be solved by giving cars more training data or explicit rules for what to do in unusual situations. To be trustworthy, these cars need common sense: broad knowledge about the world and an ability to adapt that knowledge in novel circumstances. While today’s AI systems have made impressive strides in domains ranging from image recognition to language processing, their lack of a robust foundation of common sense makes them susceptible to unpredictable and unhumanlike errors....

SNTV, the London-based television sports video news agency, has announced that it’s launchingSNTV Digital, which is officially going live on Saturday October 1st. SNTV Digital is a set of three digital video products covering football, all sports and key events, and will let publishers and broadcasters integrate premium sports news video content with their existing digital editorial and commercial systems. So what does all this mean? Well, SNTV’s content from events such as the Rugby World Cup, The African Cup of Nations, The F1 Season, UEFA Euro 2012 and the 2012 Olympics will be available to SNTV’s publisher and broadcast customers via direct download, FTP or an embeddable player....

Last night I sold my iPad. If, like me, you’ve been reading all of the“iPad 1 vs. iPad 2”storiessinceSteve Jobs took the stageWednesday (iPad vs. anything else stories are not the focus of this article), you’ll have noticed that the semi-anti-iPad 2 folks (almost no one isreallyagainst the iPad 2) have thrown out the “it’s an incremental update” argument for not buying the new device – and more importantly to us in this article, upgrading from the “classic” iPad....

I wanted an iPhone when it first came out. Really, really badly. It’s not that I couldn’t afford it; money wasn’t an issue. I also had a phone that was in sore need of replacing, so a smartphone was the next logical purchase. I already immersed my household in Apple gear, so an iPhone was the best choice. But I had no way to get one…because Canada didn’t have it. And we never did get the first iPhone....

NFT’s or non-fungible tokens first captured the public imagination when a digital collage by an artist namedBeeplesold for US$69 million (£51 million) at Christie’s in March 2021. Since then, there has been an explosion in the use of these units for storing digital content, which are bought and sold using online ledgers known a blockchains. Since that initial connection with art, we are seeing NFT’s being used in numerous other ways....