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The demise of the floppy disk continues: Months after Japan ‘won the war’ on the legacy storage medium, San Francisco announces plans to spend millions overhauling its metro rail technology
Officials from the San Francisco transportation department have announced they will be replacing their floppy disk-based train control system, jumping on the bandwagon to do away with the legacy storage platform. The Municipal Transportation Agency board, which is responsible for overseeing San Francisco’s Muni Metro light rail network, signed a new $212 million contract with Hitachi Rail to overhaul its…
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UK to host AI Safety Summit in San Francisco
The UK is set to host an AI developer summit in San Francisco to establish how the commitments made in May at the AI Seoul Summit can be put into practice. Earlier this year, the UK’s AI Safety Institute opened a San Francisco office, with the aim of bringing it closer to US AI firms such as OpenAI, Microsoft, and…
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Waymo’s robotaxi depot is still honking its San Francisco neighbors awake
San Francisco neighbors who live in a building next to a Waymo parking lot are still being haunted by overnight honking. That’s despite a fix from the ride hail company that seems to have fixed the original problem — the cars beeping their horns in the parking lot — but has also revealed that the issue is a little stickier…
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Waymo cars honk at eachother at 4AM every night in this San Francisco lot
If you’ve ever wondered what happens to all those self-driving taxis when the world is asleep, one YouTube channel has you covered. Since the beginning of the month, software engineer Sophia Tung has been livestreaming a San Francisco parking lot that Waymo is renting to give its robotaxis somewhere to go during their downtime. Tung told The Verge via email…
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