Waymo plans to test its robotaxis in Tokyo in early 2025, its first international expansion, partnering with taxi operator Nihon Kotsu and taxi hailing app GO
Alphabet-owned Waymo announced Monday that it will start testing its autonomous vehicles in Tokyo in early 2025, the company's first step toward international expansion.
Threads begins testing an option to set For You, Following, or a custom feed as the default, another improvement seemingly sparked by competition from Bluesky
For You, following, or a custom one — as your default. Also making this more visible in the app. Interested to see how and if people use this. Jason Kottke / @jkottke : FINALLY. ...
Meta says Threads had 35M new signups since November 1 and is now going on three months of 1M+ million signups per day; Threads had 275M+ MAUs in Q3 2024
- Bluesky said last week it now has more than 20 million users. … - According to the new data, another 20 million new signups have been added in the past 11 days.
In an email in May, the NHTSA warned Tesla that its online posts falsely suggested that its cars are autonomous, potentially misleading and endangering drivers
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In an email in May, the NHTSA warned Tesla that its online posts falsely suggested that its cars are autonomous, potentially misleading and endangering drivers
Tesla has falsely suggested in social media posts that its cars are autonomous, potentially misleading and endangering drivers …
A judge denies Philadelphia DA's emergency injunction request aiming to bring a halt to the $1M/day giveaway by Elon Musk's America PAC ahead of the US election
“The $1 million recipients are not chosen by chance,” Gober said Monday. “We know exactly who will be announced as the $1 million recipient today and tomorrow.” Lora Kolodny / @lo...
Blade Runner 2049's producer sues Musk, Tesla, and WBD for allegedly using AI to create imagery close to the film to promote Cybercab, despite a denied request
he takes the risk because it's too hard to stop him: Alcon Entertainment, the Hollywood company behind “Blade Runner 2049,” said it had denied a request to use images from the movi...
Meta bans Russian media outlet RT from its apps globally, days after the Biden administration accused RT of acting as an arm of Moscow's spy agencies
U.S. officials on Friday accused RT of carrying out covert information warfare operations around the world as an arm of Russia's spy agencies.
Musk posted “no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala 🤔” after Trump's apparent assassination attempt, then deleted the false claim, calling it a joke
Elon Musk has faced backlash after writing, “No one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,” following an apparent
A TuSimple shareholder letter alleges “potentially fraudulent activities” as it tries to move ~$450M to China to pivot from self-driving trucks to AI animation
TechCrunch : Threads: @lorakolodny . X: @sokane1 , @techcrunch , and @mattrosoff Threads: Lora Kolodny / @lorakolodny : Whatever happened to TuSimple? They're trying to pivot. ht...
Brazil lifts the block on the bank accounts of X and Starlink after withdrawing ~$3.3M from the accounts to pay for fines imposed by the Supreme Court
- Transfer ends Starlink's banking freeze in the country — But social-media platform X remains banned by judicial order
Election officials across the US say false election rumors spread by Elon Musk to his 197M+ followers often coincide with calls by locals to purge voter rolls
The X billionaire's false posts about noncitizen voting spur officials to fact-check him, lead to requests to purge voter rolls … Threads: @lorakolodny Threads: Lora Kolodny / @lor...
How Brazil's experiment to fight fake news during the 2022 elections, giving a justice broad power to order social media content removal, led to the ban on X
To combat disinformation, Brazil gave one judge broad power to police the internet. Now, after he blocked X, some are wondering whether that was a good idea.
Brazil blocks X, following an order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country
The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians …
Brazil blocks X, following an order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country
The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians …
Brazil blocks X, following an order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country
The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians …
Brazil blocks X, following an order from Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country
The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians …
Brazilian judge amends his order, no longer requiring Apple and Google to prevent downloads of X's app; those using a VPN to access X still face a ~$9K/day fine
The social network will go dark in the nation of 200 million, the result of an escalating fight between Elon Musk and a Brazilian judge over what can be said online.
Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes orders X's suspension in Brazil after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country
SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil …
Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes orders X's suspension in Brazil after Elon Musk refused to name a legal representative in the country
SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk's social media giant X in Brazil …