Waymo Releases Safety Report on Driverless Car Service
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| Waymo Releases Safety Report on Driverless Car Service | |
| Number | 1273 |
| Broadcast Date | NOVEMBER 2, 2020 |
| Episode Length | 6:09 |
| Hosts | Rich Stroffolino |
Waymo released a safety report on its driverless car service in Arizona, the Wayback Machine will now include contextual banners from fact checking organizations, and Huawei reportedly plans to build a factory in Shanghai for its telecom chips.
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- Waymo released a report on its autonomous vehicle operations in Phoenix Arizona for the first time. The report looked at driving data from all of 2019 and the first nine months of 2020, and found that its vehicles were involved in 18 crashes and 29 simulated events, where a human safety driver was determined to have prevented an incident, none of which resulted in serious injury and which the company said were "nearly all" the fault of other drivers. Waymo operated a fleet of 300 vehicles in the region, operating in a 100-square-mile-area, logging 6.1 million miles with safety drivers onboard in 2019, along with 65,000 fully autonomous miles. The report outlined details about all crashes with the vehicles, as well as outlining Waymo's overall safety methodology.
- The Internet Archive announced it began adding in banners on web pages archived in the WayBack Machine that have been referenced by fact checking organizations or found to be part of misinformation campaigns. Organizations used for these contextual banners include FactCheck.org, Check Your Fact, Lead Stories, Politifact, Washington Post Fact-Checker, AP News Fact Check, USA Today Fact Check, Graphika, Stanford Internet Observatory, and Our.news. The content of the archived post is unaltered, with a yellow banner at the top linking to the outside article for additional context.
- Samsung has retaken the top spot for phone shipments worldwide according to IDC, Counterpoint and Canalys. Huawei had taken over the top for a quarter on strong sales in China while the rest of the world saw a dip in phone purchases. Huawei's Q3 shipments dropped 7 percent and 24 percent year over year, but came in second. Xiaomi grew 46 percent on the year and took over third, passing Apple which dropped 7 percent and came in fourth. Five, six and seven went to Oppo, Vivo and Realme, which are all BBK brands. If you combined BBK brands, BBK would be second and close to Samsung.
- The Financial Times reports, according to sources, Huawei plans to build a dedicated chip factory in Shanghai to make components for its telecom infrastructure business. The factory would be run in partnership with Shanghai IC R&D Center, and initially create chips on an old 45nm process. This would be followed by a process shift to 28nm in late 2021, which sources say would be suitable for smart TVs and Internet of Things devices, before moving to 20nm in late 2022, with plans to use these chips for some 5G infrastructure. Sources say that with Huawei's existing stockpile of infrastructure components, this may allow their domestic telecom business to continue with minimal disruption. Sources did not mention any plans to manufacture chips for phones at the plant.
- Instagram removed the "Recent" tab from Hashtag pages before the US election in an effort to help stop the spread of "harmful information." Hashtag pages on Instagram show top results and recent results. Recent results show the latest content regardless of relevancy. Top results are ranked by popularity.
- WhatsApp announced plans to add a disappearing messages feature last November and has now updated its FAQ with details on how it will work. Once enabled, messages will disappear after 7 days. Either user in an individual chat can toggle the feature on or off, while only admins can do so in group chats. Messages in a disappearing chat forwarded to a standard chat thread won't disappear, and unread notifications will still contain message details if not read within the 7 day window. WhatsApp has not announced when the feature will actually roll out, but previously said it will come to WhatsApp on the web, Android, iOS, and KaiOS.
- MIT researchers published a paper in the IEEE Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology outlining an AI algorithm that can identify individuals with COVID-19 by the sound of their cough, including asymptomatic patients. In testing, the algorithm was 98.5% accurate on patients with a positive COVID-19 test, and 100% accurate on those with no other symptoms than the cough. The algorithm was trained on a dataset of 70,000 audio samples with multiple coughs, 2500 of which were from confirmed COVID-19 cases. The researchers hope to use this as a way to take quick non-invasive daily screenings, and for pool testing to quickly detect outbreaks in groups.
- Intel announced the first wave of laptops to use its Iris Xe Max discrete GPUs. These initial GPUs all include Intel's 11th generation Tiger Lake CPUs, and use Intel’s Deep Link technology to combine discrete and integrated GPUs for creative work. The laptops include the Dell Inspiron 15 7000 2-in-1 available now in the US for $1549.99, the 14-inch Acer Swift 3X that starts at $899 and available in December, and the 14-inch Asus VivoBook Flip TP470, which Intel says will be available "shortly" in the US and China.
- As part of the five-year anniversary for the mobile game Honor of Kings, Tencent announced the game surpassed 100 million daily active users. The game's developer, TiMi Studios, also announced plans to use Honor of Kings IP in two new games in unspecified new genres, an anime, and a TV series in China.
- The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the Raspberry Pi 400, a keyboard that includes a Raspberry Pi 4 system on a chip inside. It includes a quad-core ARM Cortex-A72 CPU, 4GB of RAM, Bluetooth, Gigabit Ethernet, and Wi-Fi 5, with two micro-HDMI ports that can power dual 4K displays. The Raspberry Pi 400 costs $70 for just the keyboard, or $100 for a bundle with a mouse, power supply, microSD card, HDMI cable, and beginner’s guide. It's available in the UK, US, France, and Germany now, coming to Italy and Spain next week, with releases planned in India, Australia, and New Zealand by the end of the year.
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