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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says his company has a different view on LiDAR and its relevance to achieving autonomous driving than Tesla.”Our view is that it’s definitely beneficial, and our approach to sensors has been that we need to rapidly build our foundation model as fast as possible,” Scaringe told The Verge’s “Decoder” podcast in an episode that aired Monday.Scaringe told guest host and journalist Joanna Stern that there is a “real benefit” and that he “wouldn’t rule out” including it in a self-driving vehicle’s multi-sensor system.The debate over LiDAR started during an earlier development period, when the models being…

DHAKA (Reuters) -Bangladesh’s dengue outbreak is worsening rapidly with infections and deaths climbing sharply across the country, health experts have said, warning the disease could spiral if urgent and coordinated mosquito control efforts are not launched.According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), 50,689 dengue cases and 215 deaths have been reported nationwide this year as of October 6.Professor Kabirul Bashar, an entomologist at Jahangirnagar University, said the outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease — already severe in September — could turn “alarming” this month due to climate change and erratic rainfall, as well as extended holidays and weak local…

Jony Ive has 15 to 20 ideas for OpenAI’s family of AI devices, and they will likely be nothing like an iPhone, he told CEO Sam Altman at the startup’s DevDay conference on Monday.Ive criticized smartphones and tablets — some of the very devices he made famous — during the talk and said he hopes these new AI devices will make humans happier and less anxious.”When I said we have an uncomfortable relationship with our technology, I mean that’s the most obscene understatement,” said Ive, Apple’s former chief designer.”We have a chance to not just redress that, but absolutely change…

Google’s Play Store is in for an overhaul.On Monday, the Supreme Court denied Google’s bid to temporarily block parts of a lower court ruling in its legal fight with Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite.The Alphabet-owned company had sought to pause orders from the Northern District Court of California that required it to open its app ecosystem to rivals, stop restricting third-party downloads, and allow developers to steer users toward cheaper payment options outside Google’s billing system. For Android users, this would mean being able to access apps directly from developers outside the Play Store, at price points chosen by…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Kansas City won’t have to dig deep to figure out where things were awry in Jacksonville on Monday night.Patrick Mahomes had an interception returned 99 yards for a touchdown and the Chiefs were flagged 13 times for 109 yards in a 31-28 loss to the Jaguars. Four of those penalties came in the final 1:45.The mounting mistakes proved to be the difference in a back-and-forth game, the fifth one of the NFL’s Week 5 decided in the final 30 seconds.“Whether I agree with them or don’t agree with them, it doesn’t matter,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Andrew Vaughn and Jackson Chourio each hit a three-run homer, William Contreras added a solo shot and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Chicago Cubs 7-3 on Monday night to move one win from a trip to the National League Championship Series.The Brewers have a 2-0 advantage in the best-of-five Division Series, which shifts to Wrigley Field in Chicago for Game 3 on Wednesday. Teams taking a 2-0 lead in a best-of-five postseason series have won 80 of 90 times, including 54 sweeps.Milwaukee is attempting to win a postseason series for the first time since 2018, when it…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Trevor Lawrence tripped and fell to the ground, stumbled trying to get up, finally got back on his feet and then scrambled for a 1-yard touchdown with 23 seconds remaining — turning a comical miscue into an improbable score — and the Jacksonville Jaguars beat Kansas City 31-28 on Monday night.“What a crazy, crazy finish,” said Lawrence, who was serenaded by teammates in the locker room to celebrate his 26th birthday.The chaos ended with the Jaguars (4-1) snapping an eight-game losing streak to the Chiefs (2-3) and matching their win total from last season.Patrick Mahomes, who…

A major pollutant from mining fossil fuels has been linked to an increased risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), according to new research.Longterm exposure to sulfur dioxide, a component produced by the combustion of oil-based fuel and coal, is associated with the development of the neurodegenerative disease, a paper published in Environmental Research found.Fact-checking what Trump said about climate change during the UN General AssemblyThe study began after healthcare workers at a provincial ALS clinic in New Brunswick, Canada, had been noticing a higher incidence rate of patients in the region, lead author Daniel Saucier, a postdoctoral researcher at the…

The booming IV hydration spa industry operates with virtually no oversight or data backing up its claims, according to the first comprehensive national analysis of hydration clinics.At clinics nationwide, people pay hundreds of dollars to have vitamins and minerals dripped directly into their veins as a detox, to ease headaches or boost immunity, “almost completely without evidence,” said Dr. Peter Lurie, president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest and co-author of the study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine. “As a result, there’s a real danger to consumers.”Hydration clinics, combined with the growing number of med spas…

OpenAI told the world about its internal workplace tools last week, and since then, the market has been freaking out about whether the AI startup will someday compete with the SaaS industry with its own software tools.So, at OpenAI’s big DevDay conference on Monday, I headed straight to a presentation by Scotty Huhn, who is part of a team that builds tools that help OpenAI’s Sales, Customer Success, and Operations teams do their jobs more effectively.Huhn walked a packed crowd through three OpenAI software tools: GTM Assistant, OpenHouse, and Support Agent.He made clear these are internal tools at the moment,…