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Facing ominous skies, Volkswagen was prepared. It wasn’t sweating the forecast, which included calls for rain and, perhaps, hail. Instead, it used the impending tempest as an excuse to break out its “weather cannons.” The cannons are supposed to protect against loss. But farmers near Volkswagen‘s Puebla, Mexico production plant, believe they’re actually causing it. The farmers allege that Volkswagen‘s anti-hail devices have cost them thousands of acres of crops due to drought-like conditions. By keeping precipitation away during the rainy season in May, the farmers argue, Volkswagen has cost them nearly 5,000 acres of crops this year. The weather…
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Intel is introducing six new CPUs to its mobile lineup today. They’re not something you should ditch your old laptop for, but they do bring some welcome improvements for upcoming mainstream devices. The new processors are part of the U and Y-series of mobile chips, and are codenamed Whiskey Lake and Amber Lake, respectively. The U series include 15W processors, which are used in most mainstream laptops, while the Y-series (5W) tends to be used in the thinnest and lightest devices. Despite the branding, Whiskey Lake and Amber Lake use the same basic 14nm architecture as earlier Kaby Lake processors…
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Instagram today announced new security and authenticity measures, the biggest of which is a handy application for users to request verification within the app. Verified accounts are already a thing on Instagram, obviously. Like every other social media service, they’re identifiable by the blue check mark: The difference is that now, anyone can ask for verification, as opposed to just hoping their influence will catch the company’s eye. It’s surprisingly easy. Just go to your settings, and look for the new tab titled “Request Verification.” Then you have but to enter your handle, name, and a photo of your ID (though…
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In terms of existential risk, how would you consider the coming technological singularity? What about the future of automated drone combat? Or the possibility of nuclear annihilation? Or biological weapons? Now what about a foreign cyberattack? If you’re like most people, the latter seems to be the most ridiculous concept—and the one least worthy of concern. It’s easy for us to imagine the world getting destroyed by nuclear weapons because we’ve already seen two of them dropped on cities—and we’ve got some questionable leaders in charge of policing their use. And it’s easy for us to picture an AI takeover…
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