For years, studies have backed up the theory that millennials want to drive less than their older counterparts. A new JD Power study puts a fresh wrinkle into the whole concept with the finding that younger drivers trust autonomous-driving features more than Gen Xers and Baby Boomers. Whether it's in the name of safety or convenience is open to interpretation. … [Read more...]
Soon You’ll Be Automatically Tagged in Videos on Facebook
Facebook is making big strides in using its artificial intelligence systems for image recognition, but it’s also working on bringing this technology to video. As the company demoed at its F8 developer conference in San Francisco today, it has a team working on automatically tagging people in videos. … [Read more...]
Congress Takes Up Cliven Bundy Copycat Bills To Dispose Of America’s National Forests
Less than two weeks after the arrest of Cliven Bundy and the armed militants who were occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, the U.S. House of Representatives will consider three bills that would dispose of vast stretches of national forests and other public lands across the country. … [Read more...]
The NTSB is Investigating a Helicopter Crash in Pearl Harbor That Left a Teenage Boy in Critical Condition
The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate a helicopter crash in Pearl Harbor that left a teenage boy in critical condition. … [Read more...]
The Supreme Court Has Weighed In On President Obama’s Climate Plan, Now What?
A plan to decrease emissions from coal-fired power plants was delayed by the Supreme Court this week. … [Read more...]
The Massive Methane Leak In California Has Finally Come to an End After 16 Weeks
The 16-week-long gas leak at California’s Aliso Canyon Storage Facility, located about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, has been temporarily stopped, an important first step towards permanently capping what has become the largest single release of methane into the atmosphere ever recorded. The leak has been called the largest environmental disaster since the 2010 BP … [Read more...]
Hillary Clinton Uses New Efficiency Plan to Target New Hampshire Voters
Are those high-efficiency lights? Clinton's new plan would seek to lower building energy use. … [Read more...]
A Proposed Maryland Law Wants To Make Big Chicken Producers Responsible for Manure their Chickens Produce
The Delmarva Peninsula, which juts out into the Atlantic Ocean along the eastern edge of Maryland, is a poultry producing hot spot. Home to industry giant Perdue, the country’s third-largest chicken producer, it’s also one of the most densely concentrated areas in the United States for industrial chicken farming. In 2014, according to industry statistics, Maryland produced … [Read more...]