Your car should be able to tell if you’re too drunk or impaired to drive, NTSB says

NTSB wants cars that can detect drunk driving and automatically manage speed limits. | Photo by Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The National Transportation Safety Board, the federal agency responsible for investigating vehicle and aviation crashes, called on the government to require all new vehicles to include technology that would detect drunk … Read more

Chief’s Childers and Kaplan speak at Disrupt about how community built their unicorn

Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan probably consider the saying “It takes a village” to be more than just a mere adage. In 2019, the two women co-founded Chief, a private membership network designed to connect and support women executives. Chief clearly touched a nerve and filled a need. In March — three years post-launch — … Read more

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot is up to eight times faster with new ensemble training mode powered by AutoGluon

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot has added a new training mode that supports model ensembling powered by AutoGluon. Ensemble training mode in Autopilot trains several base models and combines their predictions using model stacking. For datasets less than 100 MB, ensemble training mode builds machine learning (ML) models with high accuracy quickly—up to eight times faster than … Read more

Framework partners with Google for a user-repairable $999 Chromebook

Repairable electronics firm Framework just announced a new take on the company’s signature laptop. Produced in association with Google, the company is releasing the Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition. As the name suggests, it’s an iteration of the Framework Laptop specifically designed for ChromeOS. Image Credits: Framework The system is up for preorder in the U.S. … Read more