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U.S. Sen. Edward Markey is calling on Tesla to improve its driver assistance system after a report from NBC10 Boston exposed how drivers are skirting one of its key safety features. In a letter to CEO Elon Musk, Markey urged the electric car maker last week to prevent Tesla owners from bypassing an automatic shut-off feature designed to make sure...

The video immediately went viral: A Tesla zooming down the Massachusetts Turnpike with the driver seemingly asleep behind the wheel. A few days later, I received a phone call from Peter, a Tesla owner from Newburyport. He had quite a story to tell.

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with a full-scale augmented reality simulation. Visitors to the Boston library were able to watch the simulation at 9:32 a.m. Tuesday through the JFK Moonshot app. The app, created by Digitas, was launched last month and features the first-ever full-scale augmented reality simulation...

Workers at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station are prepping for the plant’s shutdown after 47 years of operation. On Friday, a team of about six or seven workers will begin the process of reducing the plant’s power from the current 40% to zero. The process will occur over about a five-hour period in a 1970s-era control room that contains hundreds...

An end-of-life simulation by Embodied Labs is now educating staff and students at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough, Maine.

A new virtual reality simulation is helping hospice workers and medical students see what it’s like to die. An end-of-life simulation by Embodied Labs is now educating staff and students at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough, Maine. It’s also a required experience for medical students at the University of New England. Grant money awarded to UNE paid for...

An Encinitas firefighter survived one of the deadliest mass shootings in history and now he’s helping local first responders prepare for future active shooter emergencies. Encinitas Deputy Fire Chief Jon Blumeyer was among the group of police and firefighters who took part in an active shooter simulation in Bonsall on Saturday. Blumeyer was attending the Route 91 Harvest Music festival...

Wednesday night: Partly cloudy. Warm & muggy. Near 70. Thursday: Hazy & hot. Around 90. Friday: Early downpour possible. Humid & warm. Storms possible late day/evening. Low/mid 80s.

Thousands of university students and employees targeted by email phishing schemes this year have taken the bait. Fortunately, they were duped not by real scammers, but by their own schools — in simulations meant to make them more adept at spotting real threats. When Ohio State University did its first student-focused phishing in January — a strategy also used in...

EA Sports is predicting the New England Patriots will win their sixth Super Bowl title.

Twenty years later and fans still haven’t let go. National Geographic is teaming up with director James Cameron for a one-hour special that will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the “Titanic” film, the network announced on Tuesday. “Titanic: 20th Anniversary” is set to air in Dec. 2017 on National Geographic and will feature Cameron and a team of experts looking...

After ample build up and the promise of a dramatic face-off, Michael Phelps finally raced his fiercest competitor on Sunday night. But a computer-generated great white shark, to the disappointment of many viewers, snagged the gold in Discovery Channel’s anticipated Shark Week kick-off, “Phelps Vs. Shark: The Battle for Ocean Supremacy.” In the previously recorded stunt, the trained athlete and...

Identifying “fake news” may have just gotten more difficult. Researchers at the University of Washington have developed an algorithm that can take an audio clip and convert it into an artificial video of someone speaking those words. This week, the team behind the technology released a video of a synthesized President Obama that they created by pulling audio from his...

Masaya Nakamura, the “Father of Pac-Man” who founded the Japanese video game company behind the hit creature-gobbling game, has died. He was 91. Nakamura, who died on Jan. 22, founded Namco, part of Bandai Namco, in 1955.

Alzheimer’s can be difficult to understand for those who do not suffer from the disease. A senior living center in Kentucky is helping caretakers of those diagnosed with the condition better understand it with a “virtual dementia tour,” according to NBC affiliate WAVE.