Hashtag trends self-driving cars and human surveillance.Credit card companies add new code to track sales at gun stores

SpaceX is mad at the FCC for refusing an $886 million Starlink subsidy, and experts say self-driving cars may need some form of human oversight. A major credit card company plans to implement code in gun stores to track gun and ammunition sales.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is disappointed by the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) denial of an $886 million grant for the company’s Starlink satellite internet service. As part of the $9.2 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF), SpaceX sought grants from his FCC to expand Starlink to rural homes and businesses in his 35 states. The FCC he rejected this bid in August. reported by an insider, said the company “failed to demonstrate that the provider could deliver the services promised.” said the FCC’s decision to deny funding to the company was “flawed as a matter of both law and policy.” According to Goldman, Starlink refusing to subsidize his internet would divide Americans digitally.

Self-driving cars are growing in popularity, and companies are investing billions in developing them, but experts say remote humans are being used to assist robot drivers in trouble. supervisor may be required on a permanent basis. The appeal of self-driving cars is that they are run by AI and computers, but self-driving software systems lack the human ability to quickly predict and assess risk, leaving robots to be safer than humans. Making a car is difficult. This month, GM recalled and updated the software on 80 of his cruise self-driving cars. This was after an accident that injured two of his over the summer. US safety regulators said the recalled software could “falsely predict” the path of oncoming traffic. Furthermore, according to Reuters, the deployment of these autonomous vehicles is taking much longer than originally anticipated. In a recent interview, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that developing a self-driving car was “much harder than we originally thought,” but when asked for a timeline, he said that Tesla will be in production by the end of the year. He said it could be achieved.

Visa, Mastercard, American Express Scheduled A new merchant code that allows for better tracking of firearm purchases. The move comes just one day after the International Organization for Standardization approved new merchant category codes for gun and ammunition stores to use when processing transactions. A merchant category code is a four-digit number used by credit card companies to categorize your business. It usually tells the business what kind of services or goods it sells to consumers. This new code will apply to all purchases at gun and ammo stores. After the code was approved last Friday, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander said the move would help financial institutions flag suspicious activity at their stores and save lives. At this time, it is not yet known how the new code will be implemented by credit card companies and other third-party payment processors.

researchers in Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford has developed an AI system that enables autonomous vehicles (AVs) to achieve safer and more reliable navigation capabilities, especially in hazardous weather conditions. According to one of his principal investigators, the difficulty of AVs in achieving accurate positioning in difficult weather conditions is the main reason these vehicles have so far been limited to relatively small-scale trials. is. In fog or rain, the AV may detect that you are in the wrong lane before turning, or stop too late at an intersection due to “poor positioning”. The team created a novel self-supervised deep learning model for ego-motion estimation. Egomotion estimation is a key component of an AV’s drive system that estimates the vehicle’s moving position relative to objects observed from the vehicle itself. The model uses information from visual sensors, which are often interrupted by severe weather, and data from weather-tolerant sources, so the advantages of each can be used under a variety of weather conditions.

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