Self-driving truck startup Aurora announced on Monday that it has reached its “feature complete” milestone. The long-awaited benchmark means the company believes it has its core technology in place and can focus on fine-tuning its autonomous trucks as it races toward making them completely roadworthy, a step it calls “Aurora driver ready.” It expects to begin commercial deployment in 2024, starting with the highway corridor from Dallas to Houston.
With th
Last fall, John Timmerman, founder and CEO of digital marketing agency Good Monster, had a problem. He’d lost three clients through no fault of his own—acquisitions, startups running out of funding, the list goes on—but now he was responsible for the decision that came next. Lay off good performers or keep them even though the company was already losing thousands? Timmerman texted the group chat. Or, rather, in this case, he asked his cohort at Hampton, a new community fo
Mayor Sadiq Khan has bold ambitions for the City of London to become zero-carbon, zero-pollution by 2030. However, to truly hold ourselves accountable and hit these massive 2030 goals, it’s about ensuring that cities work together to collectively address an issue head on that impacts us all. Cities like New York and London need to work in unison to scale and grow climate change programs and climate tech innovators to help the greater good.
Here are a few actionable ways citie
As firms from startups to Big Tech continue to lay off workers by the tens of thousands, the Pentagon and its defense contractors see a once-in-a-generation chance to fill their ranks with tech talent—and newly unemployed workers aren’t opposed to the industry switch.
According to a recent survey by Morning Consult, one-third of tech workers say they are more likely than they were a year ago to consider working for the military-industrial complex, and nearly half of te
We aren’t quite at the point where artificial intelligence can run an entire business, but the new wave of AI tools is getting close. That is especially true for nascent startups, where AI tools can be invaluable in the race to get a new company up and running. Tools like ChatGPT can help perform tasks ranging from writing blog posts, researching competitors, finding a domain name, and even practicing for media interviews.
So many startups are about disruption, and tools such
Earlier this week, Reddit user Bloxicorn took to the site with an unusual question: Would you delete the Netflix profile of a family member who has passed away?
Bloxicorn, a college student who talked to Fast Company under the condition that we do not reveal her real name, has some personal experience with that issue: Her dad died in late 2021, and she has been occasionally looking at his profile ever since, just to see what he was watching in the days before his passing. She ultima
We don’t all have the luxury or ability to focus for long stretches at a time, which is something that Oliver Oullier, the president of the bioinformatic company Emotiv, based in San Francisco, California, thinks neurotechnology can address. At the outset of a recent talk he gave at the Fortune Global Tech Forum, Oullier acknowledged that we are “not equal when it comes to focusing. Some people can focus very, very deeply for forty-five minutes. Others for two hours.”
Sometimes all you need to find your purpose is to eat a good sandwich.
Back in December 2017, Tabitha Brown had been uploading videos to Facebook charting her journey in going vegan, a decision she made after developing chronic pain and fatigue. While trying to get her acting career off the ground, Brown drove for Uber on the side and was actually between rides when she posted an exuberant review of Whole Foods’s “TTLA” (tempeh bacon, tomato, lettuce, avocado) s
Starting this weekend, Twitter says it will begin phasing out its legacy verification program, meaning the only blue checkmarks you’ll see on Twitter will be for users who have opted to pay for them.
Twitter announced, via tweet, its plan to wind down the program and begin “removing legacy verified checkmarks” on April 1, with the only option to keep them coming in the form of a Twitter Blue subscription.
Now T2, a new social network led by former
The gloves are coming off in the fight over the future of AI.
On Tuesday, the Future of Life Institute, a futurist nonprofit backed by the Musk Foundation, published an open letter calling for a six-month pause on training AI systems more powerful than OpenAI’s leading GPT-4 service.
“Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable,” declares the letter, which has