Despite not being available in Europe yet because of European Union data privacy regulations, Threads has reached 100 million users faster than any other app. The speed of its growth handily beat artificial intelligence app ChatGPT, which took two months to reach that mark, according to a UBS study.

Sony's PlayStation 4 console has been a huge hit for the company, and it has now hit the 100 million sales milestone. Sony revealed in its latest earnings that the company sold 3.2 million PS4 devices in the quarter ended June 30th, meaning exactly 100 million have now been sold in total. Sony was previously sitting at 96.8 million PlayStation 4 consoles after the previous quarter. While sales of the PS4 might be slowing down, it's still the fastest home game consoles to reach 100 million unit sales, according to Daniel Ahmad, Senior Analyst at Niko Partners. That's faster than both the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo's popular Wii console.

The field of Computer Vision has undergone such a drastic change during the course of my PhD that it's almost hard to believe. In 2011 when I entered, Computer Vision was its own area with its own problems. It was buzzing with activity, there were people working on object detection, scene classification, attribute classification, action classification, pose estimation, etc, etc. The feeling was that we were going to have all of these systems in all of these different areas that we solve one by one and then we plug it together somehow and produce all these intermediates that we pass on elsewhere. I spent a lot of time thinking about what "solved" Computer Vision would look like - we'd extract everything out of the image and pass it on to some other people who worked on planning, or something like that.

More than a century after introducing the Model T, Ford hopes to once again change how the masses move. The company announced this morning that it will have thousands of fully autonomous vehicles in urban car-sharing and ride-hailing fleets by 2021. To achieve that goal, the company will double, to 300, the number of people at its Silicon Valley research center and add 60 autonomous vehicles to the fleet of 30 already deployed there. Google, Nissan, and Mercedes-Benz see autonomous vehicles on the road by 2020, and Chinese tech giant Baidu says it will have the technology in 2019. But none of them has made promises as specific as those Fields made today.