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Tesla is fined millions of dollars for false advertising

Tesla has been fined $2.2 million by the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) for false advertising regarding its range. Last year, we reported on the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC)  launching an investigation into allegations that Tesla violated advertising laws by overstating the range of its electric vehicles. Korea uses the Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP) and therefore, Tesla uses the same range as it advertised in most other markets other than in North…

iPhone 14’s Crash Detection feature sends 71 false alarms to emergency services over one weekend

Apple Crash Detection feature sends 71 false alarmsSkiers accidentally activating the feature resulted in 71 false calls to 911 rescue teams in Summit County, Colorado, over the course of the weekend from four ski resorts, which made it difficult for rescuers to allocate resources for emergency response. Additionally, the report stated that an increased number of false positives for crash detection were reported for the 12 ski resorts in Grand County, Eagle County, Pitkin County, and Routt County, including Summit County…

Why is iPhone 14 crash detection sending false alarms from skiers?

Image Source : INDIA TV iPhone Apple, the tech giant has been reportedly sending false alarms for the iPhone 14 smartphone and Apple Watch, from skiers because of the Crash Detection feature. which comes built into the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro and new Apple Watch models, putting emergency resources under stress. Apple devices of skiers in the US state had sent…

Apple iPhone 14 series’ Crash Detection feature raising false alarms

Apple iPhone 14 series consists of four models.A couple of months ago, Apple launched the new iPhone 14 series globally. The Apple iPhone 14 series comprises four smartphones - Apple iPhone 14, Apple iPhone 14 Plus, Apple iPhone 14 Pro and Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max. Although all four models in the Apple iPhone 14 series get different features and specifications, one new feature that Apple introduced in all flagship phones is the Crash Detection feature. As the name suggests, the Crash Detection features in the…

The False Hype Around Nuclear Fusion

The internet has been awash with reports of a “major breakthrough” in nuclear fusion technology that could change the way we produce energy, moving from dirty fossil fuels to clean, green energy. In a historic first, the team at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (LLNL), recently announced that they managed to create a surplus of nuclear fusion energy by bombarding hydrogen isotopes with powerful lasers.But according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the reports are misleading…

Universal Pictures Is Being Sued for False Advertising Over Trailer Including Cut Star Ana de Armas

Trailers are designed to show entice us into seeing the full movie, they give us a brief glimpse into what we can expect to see from the film whilst (hopefully) not giving the whole thing away. Trailers are in themselves an art form, carefully balancing between exposing and hiding, much like a strip tease one could say, but when people feel that the trailer has significantly misguided them, that’s where things start to get ugly. Universal Studios is being sued by two Ana de Armas fans after they felt that the trailer…

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths review: Long, self-indulgent epic | Hollywood

What is an Alejandro G. Iñárritu film if it not powered by a dizzying sense of movement? The now-iconic sequence from the Mexican director's debut Amores Perros follows a car crash with such propulsive energy and style that you almost forget to breathe. Amores Perros was the birth of a major filmmaking talent that would take the Mexican director further away from his roots and plant his genius in Hollywood. Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Emma Stone- the biggest names have worked with him. Iñárritu has gone…

SpiceJet’s Attempt of Retrieving Customer Trust Backfires, False Audit Claim Rejected

SpiceJet was under the radar of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) due to multiple safety concerns. Recently, the low-cost carrier claimed that International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has audited its safety standards and maintained that everything is perfect with the airlines. In what seems to be a big blow to SpiceJet’s attempts to reaffirm its stand on passenger safety, ICAO has stated that it has not audited any airline.Also Read: DGCA Cuts Down SpiceJet Flights by 50% for Eight Weeks After…

Tesla is ordered to upgrade self-driving computer for free over ‘false advertising’

A judge has ordered Tesla to upgrade a customer’s self-driving computer for free in order to subscribe to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving program. It’s a victory for customers frustrated with Tesla’s approach to selling self-driving to customers before achieving the capacity. Since 2016, Tesla has claimed that all its vehicles produced going forward have “all the needed hardware” to become self-driving with future software updates. The automaker has yet to deliver on that promise, and it also…

Tweaking a model for lower False Predictions | by Gustavo Santos | Dec, 2022

When creating a classification model, many algorithms offer the function predict_proba() to give us the probability of that observation being classified under each class. Thus, it is common to see an output like this:In the previous case, the model is 92.5% sure that the observation pertains to class 0, and only 7.5% of chance to be from class 1.If we, therefore, request this same model to give us a binary prediction using the predict() function, we’ll just get a as the result, correct?In this example, it is most likely…