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If you’re visiting Arlington, Texas, and have been itching to try out an autonomous vehicle, you’re in luck.
Starting Friday, three Drive.ai self-driving cars (and eventually five) will be available to ride — for anyone, not just office workers, city officials, or a select group of “early riders.” Back in July, Drive.ai piloted the autonomous Nissan NV200 vans in Frisco, Texas. The Arlington deployment will be around for the next year.
“This is a not a quick demonstration,” CEO Bijit Halder said in a phone call this week.
If you’re interested, you can download the Drive.ai app or order a car from a kiosk at five pickup points. The cars are taking passengers along three routes that hit the Dallas Cowboys stadium, the Texas Rangers ballpark, the Arlington Convention Center, restaurant districts, and other venues. Read more…
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Facebook’s promise to fight fake news is finally starting to work. Well, sort of. It depends on where you look.
Almost two years after the company vowed to start taking its fake news problem seriously, some of those efforts are beginning to pay off, even if things aren’t moving nearly fast enough for some.
The social network has introduced a new series called “The Hunt for False News,” which includes specific examples of widely shared fake news on the platform.
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It’s partly a status update on the company’s efforts to fight misinformation and partly an effort at instilling a bit more media literacy in users (assuming they think to check Facebook’s official blog posts in the first place). The initial post provides three examples of fake news stories that have made the rounds on Facebook over the last several months: Read more…
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