Because hybrid and electric vehicles make little noise at low speed, carmakers add synthetic sounds to alert pedestrians. Designer Danielle Venne explains her composition process for the Nissan Leaf.
Yanely Espinal, host of Marketplace’s new YouTube show “Financially Inclined,” says this method is safer than learning how to invest the hard way in real life.
Pam Smith, CEO of Verified Voting, says not only is it crucial to have up-to-date, high tech voting equipment, but also low tech voting solutions if it all fails.
Augmentative and alternative communication tools help people who have difficulty with speech. Sam Sennott of Portland State University says building these tools with artificial intelligence is increasing and enhancing options for users.
The Communications Decency Act provision shields platforms from liability for the things their users say online. Former Congressman Chris Cox says those protections end at artificial intelligence.
Self-driving cars are increasingly common in a handful of U.S. cities, but as their numbers grow, so do reports of problems. The Verge’s Andrew Hawkins says humans are less tolerant of robocars’ errors than of the safety risks posed by other humans.
Passwords are an enormous security risk, and big tech companies are looking at passkeys as a tentative solution to the perils of password breaches and lost phones. Chester Wisniewski of Sophos unlocks the secrets of the technology.
