Smoking

Member of criminal network sentenced to jail over mass importation of illegal cigarettes

“Attempted importations of illicit tobacco are often concealed within cargo consignments amongst other commodities or declared as goods other than tobacco,” said the Australian government. A man has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail after the Australian Border Force (ABF) intercepted almost 500,000 cigarettes coming from China in 2019. The ABF…

Hyundai Tucson

Hyundai issues recall for popular SUV

“Vehicle recalls are a swift and effective means of replacing any component that may have a fault, at zero cost to the owner,” said Hyundai. Source: Wikimedia Commons. The car manufacturer has issued a recall for over 2500 models of the 2017-2018 Tucson, citing there could be an issue with the Heater Core. According to…

Artificial intelligence

Google fires the engineer who claims their AI chatbot has sentience

Last month, Blake Lemoine claimed Google’s advanced chatbot has sentience which was denied by the tech giant. Google has fired the software engineer and artificial intelligence researcher who said their advanced chatbot system, LaMDA, is sentient. Google called The Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) “breakthrough conversation technology”, an advanced chatbot that can engage in…