Italy balks at commission's offer saying it doesn't want 'charity' to accept migrants arriving from the Mediterranean.
World football governing body announces names of 10 shortlisted nominees for the 2017-2018 season.
Mozilla's latest Nightly builds for Firefox now include an option to mute autoplaying audio. The feature was recently added to the Chrome browser, but Mozilla's update offers a few more options. According to Engadget, "You can turn the feature off entirely, force it to ask for permission, and make exceptions for specific sites." Keep in mind that these are nightly releases, so you will most likely run into some bugs. The "polished version" is likely weeks away.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Uber is putting its autonomous vehicles back on Pittsburgh's city streets, four months after a fatal accident involving one of its self-driving cars prompted the ride-hailing company to halt testing on public roads. But for now, Uber's modified self-driving Volvo XC90 vehicles will only be driven manually by humans and under a new set of safety standards that includes real-time monitoring of its test drivers and efforts to beef up simulation. The sensors, including light detection and ranging radar known as LiDAR, will be operational on these self-driving vehicles. They won't be operated in autonomous mode, however. Uber will use these manually operated self-driving vehicles to update its HD maps of Pittsburgh. This manual-first rollout is a step toward Uber's ultimate goal to relaunch its autonomous vehicle testing program in Pittsburgh, according to Eric Meyhofer, head of Uber Advanced Technologies Group, who published a post Tuesday on Medium. Uber said that all its self-driving vehicles, whether they're driven manually or eventually in autonomous mode, will have two Uber employees inside. "These 'mission specialists' -- a new name Uber has given to its test drivers -- will have specific jobs," reports TechCrunch. "The person behind the wheel will be responsible for maintaining the vehicle safety, while the second 'mission specialist' will ride shotgun and document events." Every vehicle will also have a driver monitoring system that will track driver behavior in real time.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Number of slain media workers rises to eight in Mexico in 2018 after killings of Ruben Pat Cauich and Luis Perez Garcia.
Number of slain media workers rises to eight in Mexico in 2018 after killings of Ruben Pat Cauich and Luis Perez Garcia.
Election campaign shows there are countless of people trying to bring about change in Pakistan, indicating better days ahead for the country.
Election campaign shows there are countless of people trying to bring about change in Pakistan, indicating better days ahead for the country.
Teenagers Juan and Ana entered the US without documents, fleeing violence directed at their indigenous roots in Guatemala, but new "zero-tolerance" rules could scupper their asylum claim.
Teenagers Juan and Ana entered the US without documents, fleeing violence directed at their indigenous roots in Guatemala, but new "zero-tolerance" rules could scupper their asylum claim.
Teenagers Juan and Ana entered the US without documents, fleeing violence directed at their indigenous roots in Guatemala, but new "zero-tolerance" rules could scupper their asylum claim.
How will the International Court of Justice's preliminary order to reunite Qatari-UAE families affect the blockade?
How will the International Court of Justice's preliminary order to reunite Qatari-UAE families affect the blockade?
Beauty blogger Sondos Qattan doubles down on initial comments on Kuwaiti law that grants Filipino workers more rights.
Beauty blogger Sondos Qattan doubles down on initial comments on Kuwaiti law that grants Filipino workers more rights.
