#15 Daily Tech: Artificial intelligence to help autonomous vehicles avoid idling at red lights

Artificial intelligence to help autonomous vehicles avoid idling at red lights

No one likes sitting at a red light. But signalized intersections aren't just a minor nuisance for drivers; vehicles consume fuel and emit greenhouse gases while waiting for the light to change.

Apple's grip on iOS browser engines disallowed under latest draft EU rules

Apple requires that competing mobile browsers distributed through the iOS App Store use its own WebKit rendering engine, which is the basis of its Safari browser. The result is that Chrome, Edge, and Firefox on iOS are all, more or less, Safari.

Elon Musk: Twitter deal cannot progress without proof on bot numbers

Tesla CEO and world’s richest person expressed concerns about presence of fake accounts on platform

Kindle, EPUB, And Amazon’s Love Of Reinventing Wheels

Last last month, a post from the relatively obscure Good e-Reader claimed that Amazon would finally allow the Kindle to read EPUB files.

Could video games be making kids smarter?

Screen time of any kind is generally considered to be a negative influence on a child’s development but a new study from a team of European researchers makes a strikingly different case, presenting evidence that playing video games may actually boost a child’s intelligence.

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