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Submission + - Pilotless air taxi from China's Ehang takes flight in the US for the first time (theverge.com)

Submitted by profi on Thursday January 09, 2020 @01:11PM

profi writes: Chinese drone maker Ehang demonstrated its autonomous air taxi in the US for the first time. The all-electric two-seater took flight for five minutes above a test track south of Raleigh, North Carolina, on Tuesday afternoon, with approximately 100 people, including the state’s governor, Roy Cooper, looking on.

Submission + - Huawei unveils openEuler, CentOS-based Linux distribution (computing.co.uk)

Submitted by profi on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @09:52PM

profi writes: Huawei has released the source code of openEuler, its distribution of Linux based on CentOS. The operating system was formally launched by Huawei in September 2019 in response to US sanctions, which had briefly affected the company's access to Windows and Android operating systems. The source code has now been published on Gitee, the Chinese version of Github.

Comment Toxic? (Score 1, Interesting) 174

by profi on Monday September 01, 2014 @10:34PM (#47803937) Attached to: Tox, a Skype Replacement Built On 'Privacy First'

Tox is licensed under GPL v3 which is incompatible with iOS. Brilliant idea to exclude one of the most popular mobile platforms, this will surely replace Skype.

Submission + - By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' And That Could Be A Problem (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by schwit1 on Saturday July 05, 2014 @09:36AM

schwit1 writes: An estimate for when when machine intelligence will outmatch not only your own intelligence, but the world's combined human intelligence will happen in the 2040-2045 timeframe.

"By the end of this century," he continued, "most of the human race will have become cyborgs [part human, part tech or machine]. The allure will be immortality. Machines will make breakthroughs in medical technology, most of the human race will have more leisure time, and we'll think we've never had it better. The concern I'm raising is that the machines will view us as an unpredictable and dangerous species."

Machines will become self-conscious and have the capabilities to protect themselves. They "might view us the same way we view harmful insects." Humans are a species that "is unstable, creates wars, has weapons to wipe out the world twice over, and makes computer viruses." Hardly an appealing roommate.

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