Autopilot now lets Tesla vehicles identify traffic lights and stop signs
- Tesla recently released a new software update which enables Tesla vehicles to identify traffic lights and stop signs and react accordingly.
- Tesla notes that the feature will operate conservatively at first.
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Tesla’s Autopilot feature is certainly an incredible technical achievement and a compelling feature, but there’s no denying that the feature still has a lot of room for improvement. Tesla, however, remains committed to continuously updating its Autopilot software and making it as reliable and safe as it can possibly be.
Most recently, Tesla rolled out a software update that enables eligible Tesla vehicles with the right Autopilot package to identify traffic lights and stop signs and respond accordingly. If this all sounds familiar, it’s because Tesla started rolling the feature out a while back, with a few videos demonstrating the new software in action making their way onto YouTube.
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Researchers want to know if pollution helps coronavirus spread farther
- Researchers have discovered that particles of the novel coronavirus can bind to air pollution, which could allow the virus to travel over more significant distances.
- The work is still preliminary, and the scientists have yet to prove whether the virus would still be able to infect humans after traveling on pollutants.
- The study was performed in the northern Italian province that’s been hit the hardest by the COVID-19 outbreak. The region is also one of the most polluted in Europe.
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More and more research seems to indicate that the novel coronavirus can travel well beyond the 3-6 feet that the WHO and CDC recommend as a safe distance. Contact tracing in China showed that a person infected members of three families sitting more than three feet from each other in a restaurant, as virus-laden droplets and micro-droplets were carried by the air conditioning system to other tables.
A study that analyzed how the virus can travel indoors inside a hospital found viral particles 13 feet from a patient, and it was due to the airflow in the area where COVID-19 patients were being treated. Other studies have looked at how droplets traveled in the air after a sneeze and a cough and theorized that micro-droplets could linger in the air for a more extended period, and possibly infect other people. All these studies seem to prove that the use of a mask is mandatory during the health crisis, even if it’s an improvised solution.
But what if the virus could travel for over much greater distances than we previously imagined? Researchers are studying the hypothesis after having discovered that the virus can bind to pollution particles.
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A SpaceX Starship prototype survived a test its predecessors failed
- A SpaceX Starship prototype successfully passed a cryo pressure test that claimed the claimed the lives of several of its predecessors.
- This particular prototype, SN4, will now proceed to a static fire test and hope to eventually get the chance to ‘hop’ a short distance so SpaceX can test out its launch and landing chops.
- Future versions of Starship are expected to make regular trips to Mars and eventually even head to other star systems, but we’re obviously still a long way off from that.
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An early Starship prototype has finally managed to pass a crucial test that claimed several of its predecessors. In a tweet by SpaceX boss Elon Musk we see the Starship prototype SN4 undergoing a cryogenic pressure test. Tests like this caused structural failures in several other Starship prototypes, and it’s a good sign for SpaceX that SN4 managed to remain in one piece.
The biggest news here, aside from the fact that the rocket prototype didn’t fail outright, is that a successful cryo pressure test means that the spacecraft could soon see its first test flights.
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Fresh Galaxy Fold 2 leaks include price cut and triple-camera setup
- The coronavirus pandemic notwithstanding, Samsung is apparently still planning to announce the Galaxy Fold 2 release date in a matter of months, ushering in the next chapter of a story that began last year with the release of Samsung’s first-ever foldable phone, the Galaxy Fold.
- A number of Galaxy Fold 2 leaks have been published on Twitter today, covering everything from the Fold 2 price to other specs like its camera setup and when buyers should expect to finally have the phone in their hands.
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In spite of the coronavirus pandemic that’s continuing to ravage the planet and disrupt the lives of consumers and businesses, it seems that Samsung is still pressing on with one of the more quixotic chapters in its storied history — its push to make foldable smartphones a thing.
Samsung still hasn’t quite succeeded in producing a foldable phone the average consumer would consider using as their daily driver in lieu of handsets from Apple and even other more established favorites from Samsung. Regarding the latter, the company has already tried with last year’s Galaxy Fold, as well as the Galaxy Z Flip, and now we’re learning some new details about the next generation of the Galaxy Fold that’s expected to arrive in just a few months’ time.
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‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ comes to Disney+ on May 4th
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will begin streaming on Disney+ on May 4th.
- Disney moved up the streaming launch of the movie by two months, to Star Wars Day, where The Rise of Skywalker will release alongside Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian.
- Disney will update Star Wars graphics on the Disney+ service to celebrate to event as well.
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There may never be a better time to marathon the entire Star Wars filmography from start to finish that during a global lockdown, and starting on May 4th, all the Star Wars movies will finally be streaming in one place. On Monday, Disney announced that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will arrive on Disney+ on Star Wars Day.
The third movie in the third trilogy of the Skywalker Saga was initially set to hit Disney’s new streaming platform later this summer, but the company decided to move the release date up two months to celebrate Star Wars Day. May the 4th be with us all. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hit theaters on December 20th, 2019, was available to purchase digitally on March 13th, and was then released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 31st.
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First known coronavirus victim’s heart ‘burst’ due to the infection
- The first known coronavirus death in the US happened on February 6th, much earlier than initially believed.
- An autopsy report for the 57-year-old woman has revealed that her heart “burst” as a result of the infection.
- The patient was in otherwise good health, but she had reported flu-like symptoms in the days before her death.
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Reports last week revealed that people were dying of coronavirus in the US weeks before the first registered death. The first COVID-19 death occurred on February 29th in Kirkland, Washington, according to previous statistics. But new test results from Santa Clara, California, show that people were dying of COVID-19 complications weeks before that, on February 6th and 17th. That means these patients may have been infected at some point in mid-to-late January, as the disease needs up to 14 days of incubation before patients exhibit symptoms.
New details about the February 6th victim have now come to light, revealing that the heart of the 57-year-old patient had “burst” as a result of the infection.
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NASA developed a high-pressure coronavirus ventilator in 37 days
- Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory built a ventilator for coronavirus patients in just 37 days.
- The ventilator, nicknamed VITAL, can be produced at scale more rapidly than traditional ventilators and could help boost the supply of life-saving hardware in areas hardest hit by the pandemic.
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For those with the most serious reactions to the novel coronavirus, assisted breathing is often vital. Unfortunately, the machines that efficiently provide that assistance are scarce in some areas, and hospitals with ventilator shortages have been struggling to ensure that all their patients get the treatment they need and deserve.
So, what kind of an organization would have the resources and knowledge to develop a complex machine like a ventilator in a very, very short amount of time? The same kind of organization that sends humans into space to live in orbiting laboratories, of course! NASA engineers working at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have developed a high-pressure ventilator specifically designed with coronavirus patients in mind, and they did so in a mere 37 days.
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Apple’s $399 iPhone SE is more powerful than top-of-the line Android handsets
- Apple’s iPhone SE, powered by the A13 Bionic, delivers better performance than top of the line Android smartphones.
- Priced at $399, the new iPhone SE offers users an incredible value proposition that rival Android handset makers simply can’t compete with.
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While you can argue that the overall look and feel of the iPhone has become a bit stale in recent years, the same can’t be said for the hardware that powers Apple’s smartphone lineup. Ever since Apple started designing its own processors, successive iPhone models dating back to the iPhone 4 have consistently delivered best-in-class performance that typically leave rivals struggling to keep pace.
The most recent Apple processor — the A13 Bionic — was introduced last year and can be found across Apple’s iPhone 11 lineup. Per usual, the A13 delivers huge performance gains compared to its predecessor. Just as important, Apple notes that the A13 is about 20% more power-efficient than the A12. Suffice it to say, Apple’s A13 is an absolute screamer, which makes it all the more impressive that it powers Apple’s brand new and budget-friendly iPhone SE.
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Promising coronavirus vaccine could be ready by September
- A coronavirus vaccine being developed by Oxford University scientists entered Phase I clinical trials last week and could be ready to roll out by September.
- Six rhesus monkeys who were inoculated with the vaccine and exposed to heavy quantities of the novel coronavirus were still healthy 28 days later.
- 5,000 more participants will join the vaccine clinical trials in May.
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There has been one question on everyone’s mind since the novel coronavirus outbreak in China turned into a global pandemic: How long is this going to last? No one knows the answer to that question, but in all likelihood, life won’t go back to normal until a vaccine has been developed, tested, and produced at a large scale. The initial projections said that 12-18 months would be the best-case scenario for the development and rollout of a coronavirus vaccine, but the Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research at Oxford University is trying to speed up that timeline.
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Quarantine fatigue: People losing patience with stay-at-home orders
- A phenomenon that you could describe as “quarantine fatigue” may be setting in around the country, according to researchers who’ve found that peoples’ patience with stay-at-home orders is starting to break, the longer the coronavirus pandemic drags on.
- That’s worrisome, of course, because social distancing remains one of the key tools we have to fight the spread of the virus since we’re still waiting on the launch of a successful coronavirus vaccine.
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I was wondering when we were going to reach this point in the coronavirus pandemic, and now it seems the moment may be at hand.
Stay-at-home orders were never going to be a perfect long-term solution to getting the coronavirus crisis under control, partly because they were never about “solving” the problem. They were, instead, simply a draconian failsafe that allows the nation’s healthcare system to buy time — to keep it from being swamped with cases of people suffering from the COVID-19 virus. That is an incredibly vital benefit the stay-at-home behaviors have provided, though it’s also come at a significant cost. Businesses have likewise temporarily shuttered, leading to historic levels of joblessness around the country. And the longer this goes on, the more some people seem to be taking a fatalistic view of it all, abiding by the stay-at-home mandates less and less, according to a new study from researchers tracking smartphone data.
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