(Natural News) Bicycle riders may soon find themselves sharing bike lanes with autonomous delivery robots. Robotic delivery startup Refraction AI recently revealed plans for a lightweight delivery robot that can use bicycle lanes. The company, a brainchild of University of Michigan professors Ram Vasudevan and Matthew Johnson-Roberson, is pitching its five-foot-tall REV-1 as a lightweight, low-cost, autonomous delivery […]

(Natural News) Autonomous cars operate without the need for a human driver. Artificial intelligence drives the car, allowing human passengers to attend to other tasks as they travel. But despite this benefit, Americans prefer driving themselves to work over being transported by an autonomous car, according to a study published in the journal Transportation. Researchers from […]

(Natural News) Zachary Trudo, an AI (artificial intelligence) software developer who works for Google, was reportedly arrested in Portland the other day after allegedly committing numerous crimes at a Black Lives Matter (BLM) riot. Trudo is now being held at the Multnomah County Detention Center on charges of assault, resisting arrest, interfering with a peace […]

(Natural News) Working for a tech giant like Google is a dream come true for many people – after all, this was the company that brought products and services such as the Android Operating System, the Chrome ecosystem, and even media platforms like YouTube and Google Play. This was the case for Zach Vorhies. A […]

(Natural News) No one wants to think about losing a job, especially if you’re supporting a family. But interesting research has revealed what people think about their coworkers getting replaced or losing their own jobs to robots. In a paper published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, scientists from the Technical University of Munich in Germany and Erasmus University […]

(Natural News) To keep Chinese dissidents from telling the truth about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) online, Twitter recently hired a Chinese-American artificial intelligence (AI) expert by the name of Li Fei-Fei to police the social media platform. In a press release, Twitter informed the public that Li is now the “new independent director” of […]

(Natural News) Security experts are warning that FaceApp ?— a smartphone app developed by a Russian company in 2017 that takes your picture and transforms it ?— may have access to every single photo on your phone. Concerns have been raised around a questionable clause in the user agreement of the app that states that […]

(Natural News) Former NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden warned this week that governments including the United States are sure to employ sophisticated surveillance technology and methods to ‘fight’ the COVID-19 outbreak, and that it could even become permanent, long after the outbreak crisis has passed. During a remote appearance at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, […]

(Natural News) Your face mask may protect you from COVID-19, but it can’t protect you from the prying eyes of BigTech. SenseTime – one of the largest AI companies in the world – recently announced that it will adapt its facial recognition technology to identify people without them taking off their masks. The Chinese tech […]

(Natural News) American tech company Clearview AI, which provides facial recognition software, has just reported than an intruder who gained “unauthorized access” to secure company data and documents has stolen its entire client list. This includes all user accounts associated with every single one of their clients, as well as the number of searches made through […]