- newHow Tesla's vision system "sees" a railcar
Tesla's sensor-only approach fails in edge cases and is highly unreliable. Here, it sees something distinctly different from a train. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! lol, a clip of a Tesla's vision system trying to understand a train labyrinth.zone/notice/Aq5V7… — Read the rest The post How Tesla's vision system "sees" a railcar appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 2 hours ago 15 Jan 25, 4:09pm -
- newTurn long meetings into short summaries with this AI-powered recorder
TL;DR: Streamline note-taking with the Focais Meet One — a voice-activated recorder on sale for $99.99 (reg. $149).Let's face it — nobody wants to replay hours of meeting recordings or sift through pages of lecture notes. Enter the Focais Meet One, a voice-activated recorder that takes the pain out of keeping up with conversations. — Read the rest The post Turn long meetings into short summaries with this AI-powered recorder appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 2 hours ago 15 Jan 25, 4:00pm -
- newAOL voice artist Elwood Edwards created personalized greetings
Elwood Edwards achieved fame as the voice that welcomed you to your AOL account, warmly informing you that "You've got mail!" after all the old-timey modem screeching was done with. Elwood died in November. John Graham-Cumming writes about his encounter with Elwood's post-AOL voiceover career, in which he recorded personalized greetings for everyday folks . — Read the rest The post AOL voice artist Elwood Edwards created personalized greetings appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 4 hours ago 15 Jan 25, 1:59pm -
- newPDFs don't have to be annoying
TL;DR: Edit, annotate, convert, and scan PDFs with a lifetime subscription to UPDF for just $59.99. If you've ever tried to sign, edit, or reorganize a PDF using outdated or overpriced software, you probably know how maddening the process can be. — Read the rest The post PDFs don't have to be annoying appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 17 hours ago 15 Jan 25, 1:00am -
- newNancy Mace melts down on House floor and tries to fight Jasmine Crockett: "Want to take it outside!" (video)
Representative Nancy Mace threw a tantrum today on the House Floor after colleague Jasmine Crockett called her a "child." And then, acting like a child, the triggered lawmaker challenged Crockett to a fight.Mace's juvenile outburst came while Crockett was addressing Mace's constant attack on the trans community. — Read the rest The post Nancy Mace melts down on House floor and tries to fight Jasmine Crockett: "Want to take it outside!" (video) appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 17 hours ago 15 Jan 25, 12:41am -
- newSEC sues Musk over Twitter chicanery
Frequent litigant essential to the financial health of the legal services industry, Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk, is being sued by the SEC for failing to disclose his active stake in Twitter and using that secrecy to acquire additional shares at an artificially low price. — Read the rest The post SEC sues Musk over Twitter chicanery appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 18 hours ago 15 Jan 25, 12:25am -
- newGoogle image search filling up with AI slop
Futurism is declaring this onset of "Slopaggeddon," search rapidly becoming dominated by AI slop that doesn't answer our questions. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! AI slop and SEO have come together to ruin the credibility of Google Search. — Read the rest The post Google image search filling up with AI slop appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 18 hours ago 15 Jan 25, 12:00am -
- newCoding challenge goes wrong: creator refuses to pay $5000 prize money
When Mike Goldman offered $5,000 to anyone who could compress a randomly-generated file of their chosen size in early 2001, he thought his money was perfectly safe. After all, it's mathematically impossible to compress truly random data. But Patrick Craig spotted a loophole that would lead to one of the most entertaining — and ultimately unpaid — exchanges in compression challenge history. — Read the rest The post Coding challenge goes wrong: creator refuses to pay $5000 prize money appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 20 hours ago 14 Jan 25, 10:18pm -
- newThis massive superbug, newly named after Darth Vader, is a delicacy in Vietnam
This lovely creature is Bathynomus vaderi, an isopod newly named after Darth Vader for obvious reasons. A crustacean in the order Isopoda, which also includes wood lice, Bathynomus vaderi can reach almost a foot in length and weigh more than two pounds. — Read the rest The post This massive superbug, newly named after Darth Vader, is a delicacy in Vietnam appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 20 hours ago 14 Jan 25, 10:01pm -
- newRescue crews seek to free miners trapped by other miners
Rescue workers in Peru are desperately searching for what may be as many as seventeen miners trapped in a collapse caused by an assault led by rival miners. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! In what sounds like claimjumping with intent to kill, rescue efforts are underway to save as many as seventeen trapped miners. — Read the rest The post Rescue crews seek to free miners trapped by other miners appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 20 hours ago 14 Jan 25, 9:57pm -