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Tesla Accused of Falsely Advertising Autopilot and Self-Driving Car Features

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The California Department of Motor Vehicles has charged Tesla with deceptive advertising for touting its Full Self-Driving and Autopilot functions as giving autonomous vehicle control.

The DMV claims that the electric car manufacturer deceived consumers by using overly optimistic language in its advertising.

In complaints submitted to the state Office of Administrative Hearings on July 28 and made public on Friday, the DMV claimed that Tesla “made or spread assertions that are inaccurate or deceptive, and not founded on facts.”

The DMV cited Tesla’s website as an example of the automaker’s deceptive language.

“All you will need to do is get in and tell your car where to go,” the company promises. “If you don’t say anything, your car will look at your calendar and take you there as the assumed destination. Your Tesla will figure out the optimal route, navigating urban streets, complex intersections and freeways.”

Tesla cars “could not at the time of those advertisements, and cannot now, operate as autonomous vehicles,” according to the DMV’s complaint.

According to Tesla’s website, “the currently enabled features require active driver supervision and do not make the car autonomous,” the DMV’s complaint made note of this. The disclaimer, however, “contradicts the initial inaccurate or misleading labeling and statements, which is deceptive, and does not fix the breach,” the agency claimed.

Removing Tesla’s authorization to sell automobiles in California is one of the agency’s suggested solutions, as is compensating clients who lost money as a result of the advertising.

According to the Society of Automotive Engineers, there are currently no self-driving vehicles for sale.

In August 2021, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot driver-assist system, focused on crashes involving emergency vehicles when Autopilot was active. In June, the agency announced it had expanded its inquiry into approximately 830,000 Tesla vehicles equipped with Autopilot.

Tesla, which disbanded its public relations department in 2020, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Twitter Introduces 10,000 Characters To Subscribers

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Twitter Introduces 10,000 Characters To Subscribers

Twitter has introduced a new feature that will let Blue subscribers post 10,000-character-long posts — as if the social network is trying to compete with a rival newsletter platform. Along with this, this Twitter has also added support for bold and italic text formatting.

In February, the social network introduced 4,000-character-long tweets for Blue subscribers to encourage people to publish longer posts instead of threads.

This company’s push for long-form writing comes at a time when Elon Musk is introducing creator monetization tools. On Thursday, he announced that creators can apply for monetization and offer subscriptions to users.

For the next 12 months, Twitter will give all money to creators after paying Apple or Google their 30% cut. Post that, the Apple/Google tax will reduce to 15% and the social media company will take a small fee from creators.

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Nokia Aims For The Moon With 4G Internet

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Nokia will establish a 4G mobile network on the moon later this year in an effort to improve lunar findings and perhaps pave the door for human habitation on the satellite planet.

Nokia’s principal engineer, Luis Maestro Ruiz De Temino, told reporters earlier this month at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona that the Finnish telecoms firm plans to deploy the network aboard a SpaceX rocket in the coming months.

The network will be powered by an antenna-equipped base station located within the Nova-C lunar lander manufactured by the US space company Intuitive Machines, as well as a solar-powered rover.

The lander and rover will communicate over an LTE network.

The equipment will be installed in the Shackleton crater on the moon’s southern limb.

According to Nokia, the technology is designed to withstand the harsh conditions of space.

NASA’s Artemis 1 mission, which aims to deliver the first people to walk on the moon since 1972, will use the network.

According to Nokia, the goal is to demonstrate that terrestrial networks can handle the communications needs of future space missions. The network provided by Nokia will allow astronauts to speak with one another and mission control, as well as remotely operate the rover and transmit real-time video and telemetry data back to Earth.

The lander will be launched by a SpaceX rocket, according to Maestro Ruiz De Temino. He explained that the lander has a propulsion mechanism that will bring it all the way to the moon’s surface; the rocket will not carry it all the way there.
Anshel Sag, chief analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, sees 2023 as a “optimistic target” for the debut of Nokia’s devices.

According to Sag, who communicated with Trade Algo through email, there is a good probability they will launch in 2023 if their selected launch partner does not have any setbacks or delays.

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AI Could Replace Equivalent of 300 Million Jobs – Report

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According to a research by investment firm Goldman Sachs, artificial intelligence (AI) might replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs.

It has the potential to replace a quarter of all labor duties in the United States and Europe while also creating new employment and increasing productivity.

Furthermore, it has the potential to boost the overall yearly value of products and services produced globally by 7%.

According to the paper, generative AI, which can produce content that is indistinguishable from human effort, is a “major advancement.”

The government is eager to encourage investment in artificial intelligence in the UK, which it claims will “ultimately increase productivity across the economy,” and has attempted to reassure the public about its impact.

“We want to ensure that AI complements, rather than disrupts, the way we work in the UK – making our jobs better, rather than taking them away,” Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan told the Sun.

According to the paper, the impact of AI would vary across sectors: 46% of administrative jobs and 44% of legal professions might be automated, but just 6% in construction and 4% in maintenance.

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