Vail school district upgrades safety on buses with new scanning feature
The new system is being rolled out across the district, where students scan a badge getting on or off a bus.
The new system is being rolled out across the district, where students scan a badge getting on or off a bus.
NHTSA issues another warning to not put stick-on badges on the steering wheel. They can fly off when the airbag goes off inflicting injury.
Rolls-Royce is bringing back the Cullinan Black Badge with a new, blacked-out design and an interior that requires 11 miles of thread.
Kyle Larson is among 34 drivers entered for 33 starting spots.
Google has unveiled Wear OS 5 at its I/O developer conference today, giving us a glimpse of new features and other improvements coming with the platform.
Auto insurer costs have exceeded revenue from premiums for three years straight. Blame fancy cars and reckless drivers.
On the second day of the Google I/O 2024 conference, Google said on Wednesday that it is adding new security and privacy protections to Android, including on-device live threat detection to catch malicious apps, new safeguards for screen sharing and better security against cell site simulators. The company said it is increasing the on-device capability of its Google Play Protect system to detect fraudulent apps trying to breach sensitive permissions. Google said if the system is certain about malicious behavior, it disables the app automatically.
How you can keep up with every NFL game, from the season opener to the 2025 Super Bowl.
Meta's newest social network, Threads, is starting its own fact-checking program after piggybacking on Instagram and Facebook's network for a few months. Instagram head Adam Mosseri noted that the company "recently" rolled out the ability for fact-checkers to rate and mark false content on Threads. It is also not clear which organizations are Meta's fact-checking partners for Threads.
Google is bringing some of the biggest changes to its search platform in years.
As Google revamps itself for the AI era, offering AI overviews within its search results, the company is introducing a new way to filter for just text-based links. According to Google, the new "Web" filter will appear either at the top of the results page or as part of the "More" option, depending on your query. The launch is an admission that sometimes people will want to just surface text-based links to web pages -- the classic blue links that today are often of secondary importance as Google either answers the question in its informational Knowledge Panels or, now, through AI experiments.
As Google starts to make its latest video-generation tools available, the company says it has a plan to ensure transparency around the origins of its increasingly realistic AI-generated clips.
Google has unveiled a new Circle to Search capability at I/O 2024.
This sixth generation of chips, dubbed Trillium, will launch later this year. Announcing the next generation of TPUs is something of a tradition at I/O, even as the chips only roll out later in the year.
Google just announced some changes to Gemini on Android at I/O 2024. The chatbot can now contextually analyze specific apps and provide relevant suggested actions.
Early-stage rounds continue to account for the majority of investments in the European startup market, and on Tuesday one of the biggest firms in the region announced a new fund to bolster that trend. Accel has raised $650 million to back startups from seed to Series A across the U.K., the Continent and Israel. The fund is the eighth of its kind for Accel since it first put down roots in London in 2000.
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved -- and overdue -- time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who've contributed to the AI revolution. In a New York Times piece late last year, the Gray Lady broke down how the current boom in AI came to be -- highlighting many of the usual suspects like Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Larry Page. It began long before that, with academics, regulators, ethicists and hobbyists working tirelessly in relative obscurity to build the foundations for the AI and generative AI systems we have today.
Amazon workers at a Quebec facility have become the first to form a union at one of the company's Canadian warehouses.
The biggest news stories this morning: Waymo’s robotaxis are making 50,000 paid trips every week, Most Apple App Store developers aren’t trying outside payments, Alienware m16 R2 review.
Get a space-saving vertical garden for just $40, a Wi-Fi movie projector for $117 off and a handy Bissell upright vacuum for under $60.
The top-three stolen cars in the United States are the Hyundai Elantra, the Hyundai Sonata, and the Kia Optima, while pickup thefts decreased sharply.