Honda cuts funding to robotaxi venture with Cruise and GM in Japan

Posted on December 11, 2024 by Techme101

Honda Motor Co. will stop funding a joint venture with General Motors and Cruise to launch a robotaxi service in Japan, now that GM has pulled the plug on Cruise and its commercial robotaxi ambitions, reports The Nikkei. GM said Tuesday it would cease funding Cruise and instead absorb the company and combine it with […]
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Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp down in mass Meta outage

Posted on December 11, 2024 by Techme101

Over 22,000 people reported issues with Facebook this evening and over 18,000 struggled to use WhatsApp, according to Downdetector.

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Pentagon doesn’t know where mystery drones over New Jersey come from

Posted on December 11, 2024 by Techme101

In a press briefing on Wednesday, the Pentagon said it has no evidence that the mysterious drones that have been flying over New Jersey and other parts of the northeast U.S. in recent weeks were coming from a foreign entity, nor were they U.S. military drones. The comments come a day after a U.S. Congressional […]
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Facebook, Instagram and other Meta apps go down due to ‘technical issue’

Posted on December 11, 2024 by Techme101

Facebook, Instagram and other Meta apps are down due to a ‘technical issue’

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How to Create Users and Groups in Linux from the Command Line

Posted on December 11, 2024 by Techme101

Here’s a quick guide to adding users and groups, and then how to add users to groups, all from the command line on the Linux platform.

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Microsoft’s M12 invests another $22.5M into NeuBird, months after its $22M seed round

Posted on December 11, 2024 by Techme101

Late last year, Gou Rao and Vinod Jayaraman founded NeuBird to automate IT site reliability operations tasks with generative AI. Having sold their previous cloud-native storage startup, Portworx, to PureStorage for $370 million, the pair was well-versed in the IT challenges faced by today’s enterprises. “It’s very hard to find good site reliability engineers. There’s […]
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The Billion-Dollar Adult Streaming Industry Is Fueled by Horrific Labor Abuses

Posted on December 11, 2024 by Techme101

Bedbugs and cockroaches. Filthy shared equipment. Constant surveillance, and zero control over their accounts. These are just some of the deplorable conditions adult cammers say they face on the job.

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TIOBE Programming Index News December 2024: Python Maintains Its Lead

Posted on December 11, 2024 by Techme101

The top three points toward a winner for the year’s best, while the bottom three switch spots.

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Why Router vs Firewall Really Only Matters at Work

Posted on December 11, 2024 by Techme101

Consumers don’t need to worry, but businesses need to understand the router vs firewall distinction. Here’s why.

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GM is giving up on Cruise robotaxis, pivots to personal autonomous vehicles

Posted on December 11, 2024 by Techme101

General Motors said Tuesday it will no longer fund the development of a commercial robotaxi business and will instead absorb its self-driving car subsidiary Cruise and combine it with the automaker’s own efforts to develop driver assistance features — and eventually fully autonomous personal vehicles. The pivot is a remarkable step for the automaker, which […]
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