As labor contract talks come down to the wire, around 7,200 workers with Daimler Truck in the southern US states are facing the possibility of a strike. The current contract expires at midnight, leaving representatives for the United Auto Workers and Daimler Truck scrambling to reach an agreement. The UAW, under the leadership of President
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Chinese tech giant ByteDance has made it clear that they have no intention of selling TikTok, despite the pressures imposed by a new US law. This decision comes after US lawmakers set a nine-month deadline for ByteDance to divest from TikTok due to national security concerns. The company has denied any plans to sell TikTok,
Adobe Research has recently made waves in the AI world with their groundbreaking development, VideoGigaGAN. This AI application is designed to take a blurry video and enhance it to dramatically improve its sharpness and clarity. Through the use of a generative adversarial network and innovative techniques, the team at Adobe has achieved impressive results in
Christophe Fouquet, a Frenchman, is stepping into the role of CEO at Dutch chip giant ASML amidst a challenging environment. The company’s position as a key player in manufacturing machines for ultra-thin microchips has thrust it into the spotlight of geopolitical tensions, particularly in relation to business with China. The need to balance commercial interests
In a groundbreaking study utilizing data from a 2002 game show, Xunyu Chen, an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, has managed to train a computer to identify signs of lying in individuals. By delving into the wealth of deception and trust cues present in human behaviors, Chen highlights the potential of artificial intelligence techniques,
China’s Advancements in Unmanned Aerial Systems As China makes significant advancements in unmanned aerial systems (UAS), the nation is facing a transformative shift in low-altitude airspace management. The integration of a growing number of unmanned aircraft into the national airspace poses unique challenges and opportunities for regulation, technology, and industry practices. The digital, networked, and
The development of a sensing technology that can evaluate the quality of components has the potential to revolutionize the manufacturing sector in the U.K. Researchers from the University of Bristol have made a significant breakthrough by deriving a formula that can set the design boundaries for a component’s geometry and material microstructure, as published in
The step size, also known as the learning rate, is a critical factor in optimizing the efficiency of the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm. Various strategies have emerged recently to enhance the performance of SGD by adjusting the step size. However, one significant challenge that arises with these strategies is the probability distribution of the
The recent decision by the US House of Representatives to approve a bill targeting TikTok has sparked controversy and raised concerns about the future of the popular social media app. The bill aims to force TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company ByteDance, citing national security and privacy concerns. With bipartisan support and the
In a groundbreaking development, Volkswagen workers in Tennessee have voted decisively to become a union shop, a significant win for organized labor at a foreign-owned auto plant in the American South. With an impressive 73 percent in favor, employees at the Chattanooga plant have chosen representation by the United Auto Workers, marking a historic moment