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In October, Tesla announced that all of its new cars would be outfitted with equipment that would allow them to drive on their own, and released a video showing off technology. Now, the company has released some additional footage, showing what the car itself sees as it drives without human input.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted the demonstration, which shows off a passenger sitting in the driver’s seat (who was required to be there by law) as the car navigated to its destination traffic,

In October, Tesla announced that all of its new cars would be outfitted with equipment that would allow them to drive on their own, and released a video showing off technology. Now, the company has released some additional footage, showing what the car itself sees as it drives without human input.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted the demonstration, which shows off a passenger sitting in the driver’s seat (who was required to be there by law) as the car navigated to its destination traffic,

Last summer, the Food and Drug Administration gave the go-ahead for the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District to test the use of a genetically modified mosquito in an effort to combat Zika and other illnesses transmitted by the insects. In the recent election, Florida Keys voters gave approval for the district to conduct field tests, despite reservations from some community members.
The FKMCD put forward a pair of resolutions before voters in Monroe County and the community of Key Haven on Nove

SparkLabs has opened its Internet of Things accelerator program with 14 startups from six countries.
SparkLabs IoT has a special relationship with Songdo, a $35 billion smart city being built in South Korea. Based in Songdo, SparkLabs provides a five-month mentorship program, funding, office space, a structure program, and access to a network of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors, and executives.
The startups in the first batch are from the U.S., South Korea, Ireland,

When people say Americans won’t give up their cars, Los Angeles is a case study on automotive saturation. Car fever took off during the post World War II era economic boom, and the sprawling city’s far reaching tentacle of freeways make the automobile essential. Culver City speed shops and custom car culture elevated the LA’s romance with the automobile to another level. But a new reality has set in, and so far, no one is exactly sure how to stop it.
Los Angeles may be a car to

GUEST: Late last month the Internet was brought to a grinding halt due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack launched from millions of infected web-attached devices. And in international news, US officials formally accused Russia of attempting to subvert the US elections via hacking.
I spent eight years fighting pay TV hackers for broadcasters such as DirecTV, BSkyB, and STAR TV back when I worked at News Digital Systems, and during that time, I learned a few things about cyber securi

GoPro revealed its new Hero 5 Black camera in September, but the camera has apparently been hiding a trick up its sleeve since then. The company announced this week that it will start letting users take the data from the sensors inside the Hero 5 Black and overlay it on top of their footage.
The "telemetry feature," as GoPro is calling it, can show things like speed, altitude, and g-force. It will also pull data from the GPS unit inside the Hero 5 Black to generate a map of where you were and ho

Ever since Fantastic Contraption [UploadVR review: 8/10] released alongside the HTC Vive earlier this year, it’s been a staple of any Vive gamer’s library.
The simple premise of getting the thing to the goal is infectious, especially when combined with the tactile nature of building and tweaking contraptions across the game’s various levels. It’s one of the best examples of “easy to learn, difficult to master” we’ve seen in VR yet.
This week, Northway Ga

GUEST: The Internet of Things (IoT) is a fast-growing industry destined to transform homes, cities, farms, factories, and practically everything else by making them smart and more efficient. According to Gartner, by 2020, there will be more than 20 billion connected things across the globe, powering a market that will be worth north of $3 trillion.
But the chaotic growth of IoT will introduce several challenges, including identifying, connecting, securing, and managing so many devices. It will b

Leah Reich was one of the first internet advice columnists. Her column "Ask Leah" ran on IGN, where she gave advice to gamers for two and a half years. During the day, Leah is Slack’s user researcher, but her views here do not represent her employer. How to be Human runs every other Sunday. You can write to her at [email protected] and read more How to be Human here.
Hi Leah,
I'm a 17-year-old boy who hasn't finished school yet. How can I stop criticizing and comparing myself to others?

Streamline Studios has worked on big games such as Street Fighter V, BioShock Infinite, Killer Instinct, Final Fantasy XV, and Pillars of Eternity.
But chances are you’ve never heard of Streamline, which is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, because it is an outsourcing company, developing technology or parts of games for other developers and publishers. I met with Stefan Baier, the chief product officer at Streamline, at the MIGS 2016 event in Montreal. He gave a talk on “Why outsourc

In 1990, Tokyo resident Lyle Hiroshi Saxon began filming video of his life. Most of his videos, which he’s graciously put on YouTube, are simple walking shots of train stations or city streets. You’ll get a few seconds of a group of businessmen, cut away to an interesting store display, then back to a faceless crowd. But if you happen to be feeling panicked or overwhelmed, the overall effect can be surprisingly powerful.
It’s also the kind of offbeat project that could only com

When Pokémon Go hit smartphones this summer, it was an unprecedented hit. It broke records in app stores, caused floods of people to converge in public parks, and might even become a movie. The game was an impressive demonstration of the franchises's popularity, and according to video blogger KaptainKristian, that global community is due in part to the game’s original emphasis on collaboration between gamers.
KaptainKristian has produced some amazing essays about pop cultu

French-Canadian director Denis Villeneuve made his first English-language film, Enemy, in 2013. It’s a moody, enthralling nightmare of a movie that seems to be about a man battling with two sides of his personality. It could also be a movie about two men who happen to share a face. In either case, both are bad. One of them is a suave, motorcycle-obsessed actor with a beautiful wife and a fidelity problem — he’s part of a underground sex club where naked women kill tarantulas wi