Self-driving robots will soon start delivering food and groceries. This month Starship Technologies is rolling out its six-wheeled delivery robots in London, Dusseldorf, Bern, and Hamburg, Quartz reports. The robots will be used by two food delivery services in those areas, Just Eat and Pronto, as well as courier service Hermes and grocery store Metro Group. Starship hopes that this new technology will help cut both the time and costs associated with delivery. The self-driving robots won't exactly be self-driving at first.

A man has been charged with felony arson after authorities say he threw Molotov cocktails at a Google car parked outside a company building in Mountain View, Calif. Raul Murillo Diaz, 30, threw several beer bottles turned into Molotov cocktails at a Google Street View car parked outside Google's building, prosecutors said, according to NBC Bay Area. While one of the bottles caused a fire, the car did not explode. Diaz told law enforcement he "felt Google was watching him and it made him upset," according to an affidavit. Diaz also told authorities he was involved in two other incidents related to Google, including burning one of Google's self-driving cars, but he has only been charged with one count of arson so far.

Apparently, a crash related to Tesla's autopilot feature was material, before it wasn't. On Tuesday, Fortune reported that Elon Musk and Tesla Motors may have withheld a material fact from shareholders when it failed to disclose that a driver had died using the semi-self driving "autopilot" feature in one of the company's vehicles. The fatal accident, the first known case related to the autopilot feature, occurred 11 days before Musk and Tesla sold 2 billion shares in an offering on May 18. Yet the company made no mention of the crash in its offering documents. The news of the accident didn't come out until last week, when it was reported by federal highway authorities--six weeks after the offering.

After Apple's WWDC keynote last month, some reporters asked me if Apple's new additions to Siri are reactionary. They assumed that since Amazon, Google and Microsoft have upped the intelligence of their voice assistants, Apple was forced to make Siri more competitive. But to think that Apple's Siri improvements are reactionary shows a lack of understanding about the company's work in artificial intelligence (AI). Apple has been working on speech and voice AI solutions for decades. In fact, in 1992, I got involved with the earliest version of its voice technology research, which was tied to an early AI and machine learning engine.

Electric automaker Tesla is under investigation after what the company says is the first death of a driver using its "Autopilot" mode, which offers a limited form of autonomous driving for highway use. The driver (or was he a "passenger"?–such Brown's death is sure to exacerbate fears over driverless vehicles. But tragically, Brown was likely one of the somewhere around 90 people who died on roads that day and every day in the U.S. It does not have to be this way. To be sure, we are still far from having enough data to conclusively prove the relative safety of driverless cars versus those piloted by humans.

Many aspects of my life are neat and organized. My computer is not one of them. I rarely purge my system of old files and photos. I forget to uninstall software I don't need anymore. My desktop is a mess of thumbnails and documents.

For many, the thought of playing board games evokes childhood memories of rainy-day Monopoly marathons or Scrabble showdowns. But board games are undergoing a modern renaissance. Players are seeking out a rare form of entertainment that doesn't involve staring at digital pixels, while game creators are tapping into online crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter to finance their work. While the market remains minuscule compared to the 23.5 billion video game industry, sales of "hobby games" are up approximately 20% in 2015, according to one estimate. Among the foremost beneficiaries of the board gaming boom is Matthew Leacock.

The world's first robot lawyer has saved drivers millions by helping overturn parking tickets. An artificial intelligence chatbot has successfully challenged 160,000 traffic fines, resulting in savings of over 4 million – that's about 3 million in post-referendum Sterling. The chatbot, dubbed'DoNotPay', operates in both London and New York, and doesn't cost users a single penny. It was created by London-born Stanford student Joshua Browder, and has only been live for 21 months. Over 250,000 cases have been taken by the chatbot so far, resulting in an impressive 64% success rate.

"Think different" was an iconic tagline that helped define Apple for years. "A thousand songs in your pocket" was another solid slug that sold iPods and the idea of instant digital music. And then there was "Your intelligent assistant that helps you get things done by just talking." This exhausting mouthful, used by Apple's marketing chief Phil Schiller at Siri's reveal in 2011, fell flat. And it has framed how people have viewed the world's most recognizable voice assistant ever since.

As at least three major wildfires rage across the American southwest, the people tasked with controlling them are contending with an unusual problem beyond the flames themselves: Drones. Officials say that small personal drones are increasingly being spotted flying near or above wildfires, interfering with aircraft used for aerial firefighting and firefighter transport operations. Small drones operating near wildfires put those aircraft at risk of collision. It's unclear why people are flying drones near wildfires, but it's likely they're being used to record video footage of the blazes. Firefighters spotted two drones in their air crew's operating area on Wednesday in Arizona, the Arizona Republic reports.