Mastodawn

yahoo news | Uber and Lucid Reveal Advanced Six-Seater Robotaxi; 100,000 Units to be Launched...

Luxury electric‑vehicle maker Lucid has teamed up with Uber to create a six‑seat robotaxi built on Lucid’s upcoming Gravity SUV platform. Unveiled recently, the autonomous vehicle is slated for a nationwide rollout of 100,000 units across the United States in early 2027, with limited service in San Francisco expected to begin later in 2026 once regulatory approval is secured. Uber hopes the larger six‑passenger capacity will give it an edge over Waymo’s four‑seat Jaguar I‑Pace offering.

The robotaxi incorporates a suite of sensors—including cameras, radar, lidar and ultrasonic units—whose data are processed by Nvidia’s computing chips and Nuro’s autonomous‑driving software. The exterior retains the Gravity’s design but is outfitted with the additional hardware required for self‑driving, while the cabin has been reconfigured for an Uber experience, featuring passenger‑facing screens that display sensor information and control various interior functions. Testing of the vehicle has already been underway in the Bay Area since the end of last year.

Uber’s entry into the San Francisco market will break Waymo’s current monopoly, introducing competition that could spur better service quality and lower fares in the autonomous‑mobility sector. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi emphasized the company’s intent to challenge Waymo’s dominance, stating that the robotaxi launch will bring “more choice and competition for riders.” As both firms vie for market share, users stand to benefit from improved technology and pricing pressure.

#uber #lucid #robotaxi #gravity #waymo

Uber and Lucid Reveal Advanced Six-Seater Robotaxi; 100,000 Units to be Launched in 2027

Luxury electric vehicle manufacturer Lucid and Uber partnered to produce a new six-seater robotaxi. Based on Lucid’s Gravity SUV, the concept was revealed...

Yahoo

Paul Balduf 19h ago

#paperOfTheDay for Wednesday is "Form factors in quantum gravity: Contrasting non-local, ghost-free gravity and Asymptotic Safety" from 2022.
Unlike all other elementary forces, #gravity does not straightforwardly make sense as a perturbative #quantumFieldTheory . This has given rise to a number of alternative approaches over the decades, two of which are being compared in today's paper.
The first one is "asymptotic safety", which, roughly, asserts that the conventional Einstein-Hilbert action is indeed the correct low energy description, but at higher energies, it does not simply blow up as could be expected from naive power counting. Instead, the strong gravity interaction at high energy (or equivalently at short scale) produce a state that is essentially scale invariant: An interacting fixed point. To study this behaviour, one usually resorts to numerical integrations of flow equations of the functional renormalization group.
The second approach is non-local ghost free gravity, where one assumes that, in perturbation theory, the propagator secretly has an exponentially decaying factor that only becomes relevant at high energies. This renders the theory renormalizable because it eliminates UV divergences.
The two approaches can also be interpreted in terms of two different, momentum-dependent, wave-function #renormalization factors. They correspond to rather different high-energy behaviour, which, however, is far beyond current range of experimental data.
https://www.sif.it/riviste/sif/ncc/econtents/2022/045/02/article/3

David Ojcius 1d ago

Microbial Community Characterization in Semi-Hydroponic Systems of Starbor Kale (Brassica oleracea L.) Grown Under Normal Gravity & Simulated Microgravity.

Kale grown in coco coir under varied #gravity shows distinct microbial shifts & enzyme profiles.

#microbiology #microbiota

https://davidojcius.blogspot.com/2026/04/microbial-community-characterization-in.html

AUTO.AE 3d ago

Lucid overhauled its software leadership after glitches in models like the Air and Gravity, including key fob and system errors. Updates have improved reliability, but issues remain under review. The company aims to stabilize performance by 2026—will this reset restore confidence in Lucid’s tech?

🚗 https://auto.ae

#autoae #lucid #gravity #glitch #tech

DaLetra 3d ago

Scopri il testo della canzone “Gravity” di John Mayer
#JohnMayer #Gravity
https://daletra.online/john-mayer/testi/gravity.html

RedPacket Security 3d ago

CVE Alert: CVE-2026-4020 - RocketGenius - Gravity SMTP - https://www.redpacketsecurity.com/cve-alert-cve-2026-4020-rocketgenius-gravity-smtp/

#OSINT #ThreatIntel #CyberSecurity #cve-2026-4020 #rocketgenius #gravity-smtp

CVE Alert: CVE-2026-4020 - RocketGenius - Gravity SMTP - RedPacket Security

The Gravity SMTP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.4. This is due to a REST API

RedPacket Security