Udacity will ein eigenes selbstfahrendes Auto entwickeln. Hinter dem Projekt steckt Robotikspezialist Sebastian Thrun, der für Google am autonomen Fahrzeug forschte. Zudem plant die Onlineakademie des Unternehmens einen Miniabschluss in Automobiltechnik. (Autonomes Fahren, Technologie)
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Sinar hat mit dem Sinarback S 30|45 ein neues Rückteil für seine Fachkameras vorgestellt, das mit einem 37,5-Megapixelsensor des Eigentümers Leica ausgerüstet ist. Damit lassen sich Fotos mit ISO 12.500 sowie Videoaufnahmen in 4K-Auflösung machen. (Digitale Fotografie, Digitalkamera)
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PITTSBURGH — Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's self-driving car team, folds his 6-foot-7-inch-frame into one of Uber’s new self-driving Ford Fusion hybrids for another ride-along through downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He&039;s just finished up a trip with city Mayor Bill Peduto, and he&039;s visibly tired. Settling himself in the car&039;s backseat, he jokes that he&039;s looking forward to the rollout of Uber&039;s autonomous Volvo XC90 SUVs: Soon, he’ll actually fit comfortably inside one of the cars in his fleet.
Last week, Uber became the first technology company in the US to let people hail rides in self-driving cars. That&039;s quite a feat, considering Uber only opened the Pittsburgh Advanced Technologies Center that birthed the project about 18 months ago.
For Levandowski, the transition has been even quicker. He officially joined Uber last month, when the company acquired his autonomous truck startup, Otto. In a past life, Levandowski was the guy who built Google&039;s very first self-driving car. Now he&039;s quarterbacking Uber’s bet on autonomous vehicles.
It&039;s a big bet. But there&039;s still a lot of work to be done. Each self-driving car in Uber&039;s Pittsburgh pilot is manned by a safety driver (ready to take the wheel or hit the brakes during emergencies) and a co-pilot (to monitor the car and its route on a laptop).
“We still have a long way to go before the technology’s truly ready to take over, before nobody’s in the car,” Levandowski says.
Uber is looking at two core metrics to evaluate its self-driving cars’ performance: how long they can go before a human driver intervenes for any reason, and how long they can go without a “critical intervention” — basically, without having an accident.
“You have a number for both of those before you feel like the product is ready for launch without a safety driver,” Levandowski explains. “I’m not going to tell you where we’re at on those metrics or what the goals are, but that’s how we think about it.”
Regardless of where Uber currently stands on those goals, it’s clear that a fully autonomous future — or even a more autonomous one — is quite a ways off. Indeed, Levandowski says human drivers and human Uber drivers will be around for a long time.
“In a world where car ownership kind of goes away and you use Uber for all your transportation needs, you’re going to need more drivers than you have today on the Uber platform,” he explains. “The fraction of drivers might change over time, but we anticipate having a huge need as far as maintaining and servicing the vehicles, as well as driving vehicles.”
Quelle: <a href="Backseat Driving With The Head Of Uber&039;s Autonomous Car Team“>BuzzFeed
HP-Drucker sollen ein fest einprogrammiertes Ausfalldatum haben, wenn Kunden die Drucker mit Tinte eines anderen Herstellers verwenden. Tintenpatronen von Drittanbietern sollen dann als fehlerhaft bezeichnet und nicht länger genutzt werden können. HP begründet das mit einer neuen Firmware. (HP, Drucker)
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Mit Remix OS Player bietet Jide eine weitere Möglichkeit, Android auf einem Windows-PC einzusetzen. Anders als das bisherige Remix OS läuft die Player-Variante in einer virtuellen Maschine: Das vereinfacht Installation und Nutzung des mobilen Betriebssystems unter Windows. (Android, Core i7)
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Seit mehreren Tagen gibt es Störungen im Kabelnetz von Vodafone. Kunden haben vor allem Probleme, Online-Spiele zu nutzen. Vodafone nennt als Grund ein Firmware-Update für Sonys Playstation 4. Die Ausfälle gibt es offenbar aber auch jenseits von Sonys Playstation Network. (Vodafone, PSN)
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As we arrive at the conclusion of another week, the team at #Docker wanted to take a moment to reflect on a few of the top posts you might have missed, while also highlighting a few other Docker stories from around the web. Here’s the weekly roundup for the week of September 11, 2016:
Docker Partner Program introducing the new tiered Docker Partner Program designed to address the growing demand by enterprise companies to adopt Containers as a Service environments with Docker Datacenter.
Dockercast Episode 3 in this podcast Docker catches up with Nirmal Mehta at Booz Allen Hamilton. We discuss how large government organizations are modernizing their IT infrastructures and why these types of institutions seem to be early adopters of Docker.
Docker + Golang a short collection of tips and tricks by Jerome Petazzoni showing how Docker can be useful when working with Go code.
IoT Swarm with Docker Machine the new Swarm Mode in Docker 1.12 makes it easy to build a Docker Swarm and connect different ARM devices to an IoT cluster. Instructions on how to build your own by Docker Captain Dieter Reuter.
CentOS 7.2 ARM Docker Image the building of the first CentOS 7.2 ARM Docker image on Raspberry Pi 3 under the Docker 1.12.1 release done by Docker Captain Ajeet Raina.
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Ohne Fahrer in einem Ford Fusion: Seit einigen Tagen rollen in Pittsburgh mehrere Uber-Wagen autonom über die Straßen. Insassen haben die Gelegenheit zu sehen, was das Fahrzeug ‘sieht’. (Uber, Auto)
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Apple setzt nicht mehr einzig auf Qualcomm-, sondern auch auf Intel-Modems und gibt zumindest dem iPhone 7 Plus mehr RAM als bisher. Das System-on-a-Chip ist zwar groß, die Platine dank neuer Packing-Methoden für SoC und Flash-Speicher aber extrem flach. (iPhone 7, Apple)
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Mad Catz verkauft Saitek an Logitech. Damit erhalten die Schweizer Zugriff auf Flight- und Space-Sim-Peripherie. Die Controller-Unterseiten für den Landwirtschafts-Simulator und Star Citizen sind derweil offline geschaltet, ihre Zukunft ist offenbar ungewiss. (Logitech, Eingabegerät)
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