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How Nissan leveraged its driver assist to cut traffic jams

Nissan Nissan Nissan Nissan Nissan Nissan Instead, CCM works by having a lead car, or "probe," send information to following CCM-equipped cars, which are separated by non-CCM cars between them. The information from the probe car lets the following cars keep an appropriate distance from each other—between 30 and 60 seconds—and if there's a slow down ahead, the following cars will decelerate more gently over time, preventing the kind of concertina action that triggers traffic jams when human driv

Opendoor stock closes 78% higher after company names new CEO

OpenDoor is disrupting the real estate market with its new model. It buys homes and sells them on its platform. Opendoor stock rocketed 78% higher on Thursday after the retail favorite named Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as CEO and co-founder Keith Rabois as chairman. The meme stock hit a 52-week high and continued a stunning run this year, with shares up more than 500% so far. Former CEO Carrie Wheeler resigned last month following a pressure campaign from investors that included critical c

Opendoor stock soars 80% after company names new CEO

OpenDoor is disrupting the real estate market with its new model. It buys homes and sells them on its platform. Opendoor stock rocketed 80% higher on Thursday after the retail favorite named Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as CEO and co-founder Keith Rabois as chairman. The meme stock hit a 52-week high and continued a stunning run this year, with shares up more than 500% so far. Former CEO Carrie Wheeler resigned last month following a pressure campaign from investors that included critical c

Opendoor stock soars 65% after company names new CEO

OpenDoor is disrupting the real estate market with its new model. It buys homes and sells them on its platform. Opendoor stock rocketed 65% higher on Thursday after the retail favorite named Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as CEO and co-founder Keith Rabois as chairman. The meme stock hit a 52-week high and continued a stunning run this year, with shares up more than 500% so far. Former CEO Carrie Wheeler resigned last month following a pressure campaign from investors that included critical c

Opendoor stock soars 60% after company names new CEO

OpenDoor is disrupting the real estate market with its new model. It buys homes and sells them on its platform. Opendoor stock rocketed 60% higher on Thursday after the retail favorite named Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as CEO and co-founder Keith Rabois as chairman. The meme stock hit a 52-week high and continued a stunning run this year, with shares up more than 400% so far. Former CEO Carrie Wheeler resigned last month following a pressure campaign from investors that included critical c

Chinese Scientists Create Bright, Multi-Colored Glowing Plants

Never to be outshone — literally, in this case — Chinese scientists have one-upped American researchers and their bioluminescent petunias with what they're calling world's first multi-colored glowing plants. As the journal Nature reports, this glow-in-the-dark succulent hails from the South China Agricultural University (SCAU) in Guangzhou, where materials researchers have developed a technology that recharges the plants via sunlight and makes them as bright as a night-light and with many of th

Best Rowing Machine Picks As Tested by a Fitness Expert

What we like about it: This is Peloton’s first smart rowing machine, which teaches you how to row and correct your form. Similar to other Peloton equipment, you receive white glove delivery and it’s assembled in your home. The delivery people are pros, so they have it up and running in a half hour, tops. It has a 24-inch HD touchscreen that's adjustable and easy to rotate. Using the Peloton Row is an experience, unlike the others I had when testing rowing machines. Before you take a class, you

Before It Becomes a Hit TV Series, Fourth Wing Fans Are Going to Obsess Over This New Board Game

Fans of Rebecca Yarros' Empyrean book series are in the middle of a content Winter right now. After Fourth Wing and Iron Flame were released six months apart, and Onyx Storm dropped 14 months later, the author announced she was taking a break and it would be a while before the fourth installment would be announced. Combine that with Amazon's Prime Studios being light on details the highly anticipated Fourth Wing TV series would start shooting, and fans are eager for something to keep them connec

How Disinformation About the Minnesota Shooting Spread Like Wildfire on X

Minutes after the perpetrator of the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis last week was identified, YouTube appeared to delete several videos they had shared that morning. But not before the videos were downloaded and reshared in full on X. Within hours, the platform was flooded with wild claims about the shooter and her motivation, with everyone from Elon Musk, the site’s owner, to the head of the FBI and left-wing activists posting half-baked allegations blaming anti-Chris

The new Dolby Vision 2 HDR standard is probably going to be controversial

Dolby has announced the features of Dolby Vision 2, its successor to the popular Dolby Vision HDR format. Whereas the original Dolby Vision was meant to give creators the ability to finely tune exactly how TVs present content in HDR, Dolby Vision 2 appears to significantly broaden that feature to include motion handling as well—and it also tries to bridge the gap between filmmaker intent and the on-the-ground reality of the individual viewing environments. What does that mean, exactly? Well, D

A Linux version of the Procmon Sysinternals tool

Process Monitor for Linux (Preview) Process Monitor (Procmon) is a Linux reimagining of the classic Procmon tool from the Sysinternals suite of tools for Windows. Procmon provides a convenient and efficient way for Linux developers to trace the syscall activity on the system. Installation & Usage Requirements OS: Ubuntu 18.04 lts cmake >= 3.14 (build-time only) >= 3.14 (build-time only) libsqlite3-dev >= 3.22 (build-time only) Install Procmon Please see installation instructions here. B

$1B Powerball Is Minting Social Media Gold

Powerball just hit a billion dollars, and people are freaking out about it. For 39 draws in a row, no ticket matched all six numbers for the Powerball jackpot. The last draw was on Saturday night. Now, for the next drawing on Labor Day, the jackpot has snowballed to $1.1 billion and will be the game’s fifth-largest prize ever, according to a statement from the lottery. The largest jackpot prize ever was cashed out in November 2022 by Edwin Castro, a California man who scored a $2.04 billion do

I put my Shokz away within seconds of testing these bone conduction headphones

Suunto Wing 2 bone conduction headphones ZDNET's key takeaways The Suunto Wing 2 is available for $179 in black and coral orange. The fantastic audio quality, new voice prompts, and long battery life combine to make this a compelling headset. The lights are mounted on the top of the headset, so if you have long hair or wear a hat, they could be obscured. View now at Suunto I need music when I work out. Specifically, classic rock. It motivates me to keep going, so having a headset paired with

My favorite bone conduction headphones just got 3 major upgrades - and they've spoiled me

Suunto Wing 2 bone conduction headphones ZDNET's key takeaways The Suunto Wing 2 is available for $179 in black and coral orange. The fantastic audio quality, new voice prompts, and long battery life combine to make this a compelling headset. The lights are mounted on the top of the headset, so if you have long hair or wear a hat, they could be obscured. View now at Suunto I need music when I work out. Specifically, classic rock. It motivates me to keep going, so having a headset paired with

Betel nuts have been giving people a buzz for over 4,000 years

Ancient rituals and customs often leave behind obvious archaeological evidence. From the impeccably preserved mummies of Egypt to psychoactive substance residue that remained at the bottom of a clay vessel for thousands of years, it seems as if some remnants of the past, even if not all are immediately visible, have defied the ravages of time. Chewing betel nuts is a cultural practice in parts of Southeast Asia. When chewed, these reddish nuts, which are the fruit of the areca palm, release psy

OpenMower – An open source lawn mower

I am available for hire Hello! With a background in software engineering, embedded programming, hardware design, and robotics, I'm on the lookout for new challenges. If you're in search of someone with my skills, let's team up and create something amazing! https://x-tech.online/ OpenMower - The DIY Smart Mowing Robot for Everyone Join the Discord server for OpenMower discussion: Warning DISCLAIMER: IF YOU ARE NOT 100% SURE WHAT YOU ARE DOING, PLEASE DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME! ASK IN DISCORD, IF

OpenMower – An Open Source Lawn Mower

I am available for hire Hello! With a background in software engineering, embedded programming, hardware design, and robotics, I'm on the lookout for new challenges. If you're in search of someone with my skills, let's team up and create something amazing! https://x-tech.online/ OpenMower - The DIY Smart Mowing Robot for Everyone Join the Discord server for OpenMower discussion: Warning DISCLAIMER: IF YOU ARE NOT 100% SURE WHAT YOU ARE DOING, PLEASE DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME! ASK IN DISCORD, IF

The Download: affordable EV trucks, and Russia’s latest internet block

On Monday, Ford announced plans for an affordable electric truck with a 2027 delivery date and an expected price tag of about $30,000, thanks in part to a new manufacturing process that it says will help cut costs. This could be the shot in the arm that the slowing US EV market needs. If anything can get Americans excited, it’s a truck, especially an affordable one. However, there are some significant hurdles in the way. EV sales are slowing, and Ford in particular has struggled recently. Th

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Rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite: instruction-following rerankers

TL;DR – We are excited to introduce the rerank-2.5 series, which significantly improves upon rerank-2 ’s performance while also introducing instruction-following capabilities for the first time. On our standard suite of 93 retrieval datasets spanning multiple domains, rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite improve retrieval accuracy by 7.94% and 7.16% over Cohere Rerank v3.5. Furthermore, the new instruction-following feature allows users to steer the model’s output relevance scores using natural langua

rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite: instruction-following rerankers

TL;DR – We are excited to introduce the rerank-2.5 series, which significantly improves upon rerank-2 ’s performance while also introducing instruction-following capabilities for the first time. On our standard suite of 93 retrieval datasets spanning multiple domains, rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-lite improve retrieval accuracy by 7.94% and 7.16% over Cohere Rerank v3.5. Furthermore, the new instruction-following feature allows users to steer the model’s output relevance scores using natural langua

Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app

Today we’re announcing a new way to bring your ideas to life in the Gemini app: personalized, illustrated storybooks complete with read-aloud narration. Simply describe any story you can imagine, and Gemini generates a unique 10-page book with custom art and audio. For a truly personal touch, you can ask Gemini to draw inspiration from your own photos and files. Bring your vision to life in any style imaginable: from pixel art and comics to claymation, crochet, and even coloring books, in more

Bronze Age Humans Got High on Psychoactive Betel Nuts

Long before Ethiopian monks in the 9th century discovered that coffee tree fruit helped them stay awake during evening prayer (according to legend, anyway), communities in Southeast Asia have been chewing betel nuts—the seeds of the areca palm and a stimulant that heightens people’s alertness, energy, euphoria, and relaxation—since antiquity. But new research indicates that betel nut chewing has been practiced for even longer. By studying ancient dental plaque from Bronze Age individuals in Tha

Get a Quick and Effective Cardio Workout With the Best Rowing Machine Picks Tested by a Fitness Expert

What we like about it: This is Peloton’s first smart rowing machine, which teaches you how to row and correct your form. Similar to other Peloton equipment, you receive white glove delivery and it’s assembled in your home. The delivery people are pros, so they have it up and running in a half hour, tops. It has a 24-inch HD touchscreen that's adjustable and easy to rotate. Using the Peloton Row is an experience, unlike the others I had when testing rowing machines. Before you take a class, you

Judge Accused of Using AI to Issue Garbled Ruling

Earlier this month, a federal judge in Mississippi delivered a ruling that was riddled with factual errors, from naming plaintiffs that didn't exist to making up quotes from a state law to citing cases that don't appear to exist. As Mississippi Today reports, US district judge Henry Wingate's baffling temporary restraining order immediately raised concerns that it had been generated by a AI. We've already come across plenty of instances of lawyers getting caught red-handed using tools like Ope

These are the drawing apps I recommend, but one sticks out from the rest

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority Drawing is the oldest form of human expression, dating back to a time far older than writing. I, as a visual learner, rely heavily on illustrations or sketching out things like a prospective DIY furniture project or even cable management under my desk to visualize better. And there are a few incredible apps that help me achieve that. While Procreate is the most recommended drawing app for iPad, there is little unanimity on the Android side. Since I belong to th

Drawing for the New Yorker

Drawing cartoons is an odd profession, I must admit. But someone has to do it. The New Yorker magazine has run cartoons— or drawings, as they like to call them— since its inception 100 years ago. The editors knew how popular satirical art was, and considered it a crucial part of the nascent publication. Not just decoration; far from it. The art was more successful than the writing in that first year! A lot of the process of creating a drawing of this type involves doodling, a lot of observing,

‘Gundam Wing’ Celebrated 30 Years at Comic-Con With an Epic New Short

It’s been an important year for Gundam, between the afterglow of the franchise’s 45th anniversary last year, the launch of a brand new series in Gundam GQuuuuuuX, and the alignment of several key anniversaries for major entries in the franchise—including the 30th anniversary of the show that introduced Gundam to America, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. Of course then, Heero and the gang weren’t going to let an opportunity like San Diego Comic-Con come by without being able to celebrate 30 years of mech

Thawing vacuum-packed fish correctly (2024)

Thawing vacuum-packed fish correctly Improper thawing of vacuum-packed fish can lead to a foodborne illness. Learn how to do it safely. Looking for vacuum-packed fish is an excellent way to purchase fish in the grocery store. Vacuum packaging keeps the fish from drying out by preventing water loss; it also can ensure the fish is packaged at peak quality. Vacuum packaging, also called reduced oxygen packaging (ROP), limits oxygen and allows for extended shelf life in the freezer by reducing od

Wacom says its new drawing tablet needs no setup and has a pen that can't die

Wacom Wacom just announced a new standalone tablet for artists and creators: the Wacom MovinkPad 11, with an 11.45-inch multitouch display and anti-glare opaque finish for a natural drawing feel. Wacom says one of its main goals is for users to reach for the MovinkPad 11 as easily as they would a sketchbook when inspiration strikes. To this end, it offers Wacom-exclusive features to allow to jump right into drawing. Beyond drawing, you could use it for graphic design, note-taking, entertainmen