Expecting electric truck manufacturer Lordstown Motors said Thursday it will not have any firm orders for its own vehicles, only days after its president said the company had enough to maintain production through 2022.Questions have been mounting about if...
Snopes.com's co-founder and CEO has admitted plagiarising from numerous articles published by major news outlets over many years. He called the plagiarism "serious lapses of judgment."From 2015 to 2019 -- and possibly even earlier -- David Mikkelson included material...
Twitter is deleting its fleets of tweets after they failed to catch on.The company started testing twitters that disappeared after 24 hours in March last year in Brazil. Fleets were created to address concerns raised by new users who may be put...
The Daily Stormer website promotes the purity of white race and posts hateful, conspiratorial screeds about Blacks and Jews. It has also inspired at least three racially motivated killings. Andrew Anglin, its founder, has been made a millionaire by it.According...
A chubby robin sporting a very small metallic backpack having a antenna jumps around a suburban lawn at Takoma Park, then plucks a cicada in the floor to get a bite.Ecologist Emily Williams watches from behind a bush. With...
Facebook's semi-independent oversight panel has stated that it will examine the company's "XCheck," which is a cross-check system, following an investigation into The Wall Street Journal about the use of this system. It exempts high-profile users from certain or all of...
The U.S. government opened an investigation into Tesla's Autopilot partially-automated driving system. It claimed that it had difficulty spotting emergency vehicles parked.This investigation includes 765,000 vehicles. It covers almost all Teslas sold in America since the beginning of 2014.Monday's...
Federal regulators intensified their antitrust attacks on Facebook. A revised complaint was filed Thursday by federal regulators. They claim that Facebook used a laser-focused strategy in order to "buy or burrow" competitors to suppress competition.The Federal Trade Commission made...
In real-time, the tech takes into account hundreds of variablesWalmart, a big-box retailer, is using artificial intelligence (AI), to help customers and personal shoppers. It also helps with the still-increasing online grocery demand in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.Srini...
Germany protested to Russia about attempts to steal data from legislators in what it suspected may have been preparation for spreading disinformation before the forthcoming German election, Berlin's Foreign Ministry stated Monday.Andrea Sasse, spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry, stated...