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Waymos in Atlanta and San Antonio keep driving into flooded roads
The company has suspended operations in a second city. Autonomous cars are getting more capable all the time, but they remain a bit too willing to fight mother nature and lose. Case in point: Waymo has halted its robotaxi service in a second US city in the past fortnight due to issues with heavy rain and flooding. First reported by, the company has paused its operations in Atlanta after one of its self-driving vehicles was seen driving through a heavily flooded street, where it eventually got stuck for around an hour. This comes after Waymo also temporarily suspended its San Antonio service last week and issued a voluntary recall for nearly 4,000 robotaxis.
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Robot's lifeless corpse hauled off stage after fall during disastrous Michael Jackson impression
Bear cubs spar on woman's front porch in adorable viral nature video, reactions pour in Show Tiffany Stratton some respect -- a boob job doesn't mean the WWE champ is made of plastic Britney Spears stuns with a post-plea deal Instagram dance, college baseball HOT mic & is this dream normal? Landlord in a tenant's home for repairs was caught on a security camera getting it on with a woman instead Paige Spiranac continues her generational golf content influencing run in 2026, Mike Alstott is ripped & MEAT! 'World's sexiest fan' drops her World Cup anthem and here's why you never assist a bike thief Wearing only a watch, a headlamp and flip-flops isn't a great disguise when trashing a neighbor's motion light Paige Spiranac's swing is so hot it gets flagged as she hits the course in country club approved attire Hannah Jeter makes rare public appearance and still fires heat, Shania Twain's new look stuns & HOA Karen! Minnesota fraud mastermind sentenced to 41.5 years in prison America 250: One Step - Armstrong's Walk on the Moon Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner's old social posts stir up controversy Mideast awaits Trump's'critical' next move as US-Iran negotiations fail OutKick-Culture Robot's lifeless corpse hauled off stage after fall during disastrous Michael Jackson impression Bizarre footage captured the chaotic moment a service robot appeared to spin out of control at a restaurant near San Jose, California, leaving staff struggling restrain the uncontrollable humanoid. We're in the era of robotics before they enslave the human race, when we make them do fun stuff like fold our clothes and board Southwest flights . However, I think we're playing it fast and loose because all it's going to take is one embarrassing Michael Jackson impression for a robot to go, You know what?
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OpenAI makes breakthrough on 80-year-old maths problem
If you take a sheet of paper and add some dots, how many pairs can be the same distance apart? If you take a sheet of paper and add some dots, how many pairs can be the same distance apart? OpenAI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old maths problem. The company behind ChatGPT said it had made a breakthrough with a challenge first posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős in 1946: the planar unit distance problem. The question posed by Erdős is simple to explain.
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WiseTech begins redundancies – but omits 'AI' from emails to Chinese employees, workers say
Staff at WiseTech have been waiting months to be told if they are among the employees the company is to cut due to advances in AI. Staff at WiseTech have been waiting months to be told if they are among the employees the company is to cut due to advances in AI. WiseTech begins redundancies - but omits'AI' from emails to Chinese employees, workers say WiseTech has begun informing staff that they will lose their jobs as part of redundancies the company has said is due to artificial intelligence advancements - although an email to staff in China omitted the word "AI" after a court case against another company in the country. Staff at WiseTech have been waiting almost three months to be told if they are among the 2,000 people the logistics software company is to cut due to advances in AI. The Australian Stock Exchange-listed company announced in late February it would lay off almost 30% of its 7,000-strong workforce across 40 countries.
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Anthropic's Code with Claude showed off coding's future--whether you like it or not
Anthropic's Code with Claude showed off coding's future--whether you like it or not As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good. The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, Anthropic's two-day event for software developers in London that kicked off on May 19, the same day as Google's I/O in Palo Alto. "Who here has shipped a pull request in the last week that was completely written by Claude?" Jeremy Hadfield, an engineer at Anthropic, asked from the main stage. Almost half the people in the packed room--many sitting with laptops on their knees, coding or prompting as they watched the talks--raised their hands. Pull requests are fixes or updates to existing software that are submitted for review before they go live.
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NYC and LA Are Teaming Up to Fight for EVs
After the Trump administration turned away from electrification, two of the nation's biggest governments will advocate for more electric vans, police cars, and eventually, snowplows. New York City is not a car town. But pay attention as you walk, bike, or, sure, drive around the country's most populous city, and you might notice a car trend: an increasing number of its vehicles are electric . The city government operates some 5,800 EVs, plus 4,700 hybrid vehicles--Parks Department pickups, Police Department crossover SUVs, school buses, paramedic response vehicles, even some hulking garbage trucks. A local law requires the city to transition its entire light-and medium-duty fleet to batteries by 2035 and its trucks by 2038.
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7 ways toilets have killed people
From a WWII submarine sewage disaster to a deadly medieval pit toilet collapse, doing your business can come with risks. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Toilets can be surprisingly dangerous. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In 1076, a Dutch nobleman named Duke Godfrey "the Hunchback" of Lower Lorraine was murdered in a most unusual way .
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Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash
Air France and Airbus have been found guilty of manslaughter over a 2009 plane crash which killed 228 people. The Paris Appeals Court found the airline and aircraft manufacturer guilty of corporate manslaughter over the incident, in which flight AF447 between Rio de Janeiro and Paris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. The passenger jet stalled during a storm and plunged into the water, killing all on board. A court had previously cleared the companies in April 2023 but they were found guilty after this appeal. The Airbus A330 vanished from radars during a storm, with its wreckage found after a long search of 10,000 sq km (3,860 sq miles) of sea floor.
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The Download: online safety's future and climate tech's big pivot
The Download: online safety's future and climate tech's big pivot Plus: SpaceX has filed for an IPO expected to be the largest ever. For months, the Trump administration has been going after researchers who study and try to counter hate speech, harassment, propaganda, and disinformation online. Now, some of those researchers are fighting back. In a new lawsuit, they're seeking to strike down a visa restriction policy against "foreign officials and other persons" announced last year by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. They say the policy violates the speech and due process rights of foreign-born workers whose "work supports greater moderation of content on the [tech] platforms. Find out how the case could impact online safety and free speech .
Tesla brings Full Self-Driving to China
It's now one of the 10 countries where (supervised) FSD is now available. Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) driver-assistance system is now available in China . In a post on X, Tesla listed China as one of the 10 countries wherein FSD is already available. The company is, of course, talking about the supervised version of the technology, seeing as unsupervised FSD is still not available to the public. On Tesla's Chinese website, the company lists intelligent assisted driving as an add-on option for Tesla Model 3. It will cost customers in the country a one-time fee of 64,000 yuan ($9,410) on top of the vehicle itself.
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