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Do Not Pay Bot Cancels Parking Tickets For Thousands
Remember all those sites you browse and get greeted by a chat bot asking if you want help or support while browsing the site. The chatbots more often than not don’t help out other than redirecting you to forums or sending back automated responses to your keywords. The Do Not…
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First UK Driverless Car Insurance Goes Live
For many getting insurance is easy, you ring up and get a policy to cover you in case you are involved in an accident. What if the accident wasn’t your fault? What if it was because of the automated driving features on your car or because of the driverless nature…
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How Do You Automate a Parking Garage?
We often use robotics and technology to automate and speed up how we do things, giving us an easier lifestyle. In LA, they’ve taken it one step further and gone through automating an entire three-story parking garage. When it’s officially revealed on the 24th May, the new parking structure will…
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Upgrade Your Truck With The Self-Driving Otto!
While it is one thing to create a self-driving car like those being created by Tesla or rumoured to be in the works for Apple, it is something else altogether to upgrade your current car to drive itself. Something on a whole different level is to create a self-driving truck, but…
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While The Last One Was A Hoax 123-reg Has Actually Deleted People’s Websites
A few days ago we reported on the fact that a company had apparently deleted itself, news which later turned out to be a hoax as part of a bad marketing scheme. For people who used 123-reg, a website hosting company in the UK, the joke may be on them as…
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Self-Driving Trucks Hit The Roads In Europe
When it comes to vehicles, there are two new technologies that people are looking forward to. First off there are electric vehicles, with Tesla’s new Model 3 getting billions of dollars worth of pre-orders, then there is the move to automated vehicles. With driverless vehicles gaining momentum, a set of…
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Take A Look At The First Driverless Racecar
With more and more people being interested in driver-less technology it was only a matter of time before it went from the streets to the race track. Formula E have already announced their intention to start a driverless championship, but you can even get a glimpse at the designs behind…
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Want to Watch a Movie in Your Self-Driving Car? Ford Wants You To!
We all know that Ford is one of many companies that are looking at self-driving cars. They’ve even tested their cars in the snow, a weather most of us don’t like driving in at the best of times. What do you do when you don’t have to drive? That half…
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Create Your Own LCARS System Using A Raspberry Pi
Star Trek has had a lasting impact on everything from science fiction to people’s everyday lives. Everybody who has watched the series has their own generation, and for myself it was the Next Generation. I remember watching the first episode when it aired and gazing at the screens as they…
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Volvo ROAR is an Automated Bin!
Volvo is known for their safe cars, my own family has the saying that Volvo’s are the people’s tanks. They are known for other things and soon they could be the ones responsible for your bins thanks to ROAR. ROAR (RObot based Autonomous Refuse handling) is designed to help those…
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Hungry? Don’t Worry! The Delivery Robot Starship Is Here!
It gets late, you could go to the kitchen and cook a nice warm meal but every bone is your body is crying out to sit down and play one game, watch one more movie or even to just keep reading. You select one of your favourite fast food places…
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Nest Being Turned Off By Glitch From 2015
Nest is a name that flies around these days, settling in homes all over the world. The little piece of hardware is designed to allow you remote and smart control of your heating, from detecting when you’re nearly home, to turning the temperature down while at work, the device is…
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FCC To Post List Of Robo Callers
A thousand a day may seem like an exaggeration but when you pick up the phone to the robotic voice saying you’ve just won a great deal or that they are offering you the same deal you hanged up on five minutes ago, Robo callers and telemarketers can prove a…
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The Tesla Autopilot System is Surreal
Tesla is certainly a pioneer of vehicle technology and continues to innovate in this market. The concept of autonomous cars is becoming more widely accepted and provides a glimpse into the future. Recently, Tesla’s Autopilot system was showcased in a real world scenario. The software is capable of detecting the…
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