Rebecca Ackermann

1 week ago | technologyreview.es | Rebecca Ackermann

En 2021, 20 años después de la muerte de su hermana mayor, Vauhini Vara seguía sin poder contar la historia de su pérdida. «Me pregunté si la máquina de Sam Altman podría hacerlo por mí», escribe en Searches (Búsquedas), su nueva colección de ensayos sobre tecnología de IA. Así que probó ChatGPT.

1 month ago | technologyreview.es | Rebecca Ackermann

El trabajo diario de Dora Manríquez, conductora de Uber y Lyft en San Francisco, consiste en esperar en su coche hasta que aparece un número de dos dígitos en su pantalla. Las aplicaciones le ofrecen viajes que a menudo no compensan el tiempo invertido: 4 o 7 dólares por un trayecto por la ciudad, o 16 dólares por un viaje desde el aeropuerto, donde el cliente paga 100 dólares. Sin embargo, Manríquez no puede tardar mucho en aceptar un viaje.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Rebecca Ackermann

2 hours agoAnele's horror Uber trip: Driver threatens rape [video]Anele Mdoda has shared footage of her horror Uber trip over the weekend, in which a driver threatened her with rape. The harrowing ordeal was shared …5 hours agoDon't expect to see robotaxis on Uber any time soon, Dara Khosrowshahi saysUber's CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, said he wants to work with Tesla on robotaxis — even though the electric vehicle maker isn't interested.

2 months ago | allafrica.com | Rebecca Ackermann |Lauren Schroeder |Robyn Pickering

Here's how the story of the Taung Child is usually told:In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material. A year later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description of what he argued was a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus, in the journal Nature.

2 months ago | phys.org | Rebecca Ackermann |Lauren Schroeder |Robyn Pickering

Here's how the story of the Taung Child is usually told: In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this material.