The self-driving vehicle industry may be young, just a bit over a decade old, but already a meaningful trend is taking shape: it's proving to be more open to women CEOs and founders–including women of color–than the broader tech industry and for U.S. companies generally. With this week's news that Waabi founder and CEO Raquel Urtasun raised $83.5 million in a Series A round for her Toronto-based startup, three out of 12 leading autonomous technology companies in North America are now led by women. What's more, in a time when companies across all industries are working to improve diversity, two of the women leading self-driving tech companies, Zoox CEO Aicha Evans and Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana, are Black. "I've been really excited to see the number of women interested in autonomous technology. There's an appreciation for what it can do for people, what it's going to unlock," says Alisyn Malek, who left General Motors to cofound autonomous shuttle startup May Mobility in 2017 (and is currently executive director of the Washington-based Commission on the Future of Mobility).

By all appearances, May Mobility was a scrappy success story. The autonomous transportation startup made its debut at Y Combinator's demo day in 2017, with a team that had been working on driverless tech since the third U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenge in 2017. Within the span of a few years, May had a roster of paying customers in Michigan, Ohio, and Rhode Island as it raised tens of millions in venture capital from investors including Toyota and BMW. But on the inside looking out, it was a different story. May engineers struggled to maintain and upgrade the company's vehicle platform, at one point spending months attempting to install an air conditioning system in the depths of summer.

Ariel Moore exhaled sharply and lifted her arms to the sky. "I have arrived alive!" she said to no one in particular. This should not be notable. Moore just took a half-mile ride in a six-seat shuttle, one of several that run in a loop between her office in downtown Detroit and the garage where she parks her car. But on that sunny June day, she and her colleagues at real estate company Bedrock also did something quietly remarkable.

Though the beauty industry seeks to eradicate them, research has shown that having wrinkles can be a positive thing. Researchers from Western University and the University of Miami found that human brains are pre-wired to view people as more sincere if they have wrinkles around their eyes when they smile and frown. People who have the so-called'Duchenne marker' are viewed as conveying more intense and more sincere emotions. Researchers used a method called visual rivalry and showed study participants photographs of expressions with and without the Duchenne marker to see which expressions are perceived as more important. When different images are shown in each eye, the brain alternates between these two images, but will bring the image that is perceived as more relevant into perceptual awareness more often.

Robot" is never far from the pulse of current events. A couple of weeks ago, the dystopian computer hacker drama was in mid-shoot at an FBI field office when news broke that bureau Director James Comey had been fired. "One of the lines of dialogue is referencing Comey," Sam Esmail, the show's creator, recalled. "That was a little surreal and kind of an out-of-body experience." Esmail might as easily be describing the USA Network series, whose dark and downbeat second season unfolded much within the imagination of its mentally unstable antihero, Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek), as he fought to free himself from his manipulative alter-ego, Mr. Robot (Christian Slater). By season's end, fsociety -- the underground hacktivist group led by the sidelined Elliot -- was shattered, and a deadly, explosive plot hatched by Mr. Robot and the Dark Army, a cryptic Chinese organization, was about to go off. Elliot himself lay bleeding, shot by a character he believed to be a delusional figment. The show's license to be uncanny is endorsed by the headlines, argues its star. "As ridiculous as this sounds, I feel that I'm reading my scripts as if I could be reading the L.A. Times tomorrow," said Malek, speaking by phone during a lunch break from a location shoot on New York City's Broadway. "I would approach Sam and say, 'Do you really believe that this is possible?'

Robot" Rami Malek has been nominated as best male actor in a drama series for his performance as Elliot Alderson in the hit USA Network series at the 23rd SAG Awards. The actor took to Twitter to share his delight over the nomination. "Gotta thank my peers for the love and respect they've showed me with this @SAGawards nomination," Malek said. Fans will know if Malek won the award when the ceremony airs on Jan. 29, 2017. Aside from a possible win from Malek, fans can also expect to see the actor in a project that has been waiting to be made for years now. The actor was tapped to replace Sasha Baron Cohen in the long-gestating Queen biopic titled "Bohemian Rhapsody," according to Variety. During an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Malek opened up for the first time about playing the legendary musician Freddie Mercury. Who doesn't know that music? Of course I have to prepare," Malek said about the status of the film.

Robot" has gained a cult-like following not just in the U.S., but also in other parts of the world. Stars of the show are aware that the show has devoted fans, but it wasn't until Rami Malek, who plays the series' lead character Elliot Alderson, encountered a fan in Serbia that he realized how big the show's effect really is. During a panel, as quoted by Variety, Malek said: "I was just shooting a movie in Serbia and so many young kids came out and waited outside my hotel to talk to me about ['Mr. They had nothing but good things to say about the show and how the characters have affected them. I've never had that experience before." Malek added: "I'm very proud of what [series creator] Sam [Esmail] has created and that the show is bringing attention to people suffering with mental illness.

Rami Malek won an Emmy for his performance as Elliot Alderson in "Mr. The actor has been very effective in the role that it's curious to learn how things would have turned out if Malek was not cast for it. Series creator Sam Esmail said the show would not have seen the light of day if he did not find Malek. In an interview with Recode, Esmail said: "I thought we were in real trouble. I was contemplating not doing the show because we were not finding the guy.

"You hear people say that it is an out-of-body experience and there's no way to prepare for it, but I seriously sat there and thought, 'Was it my name?' Like, 'Please, Rami, don't stand up if you don't think you really heard your name,'" the actor exclusively told E! News' Catt Sadler after the show. "Then I got out of my chair and walked onstage. I was like, 'This might actually be happening.' Malek added that he was "humbled" to be in the company of such "phenomenal, magnificent" actors. Mr. Robot has taken Malek by surprise on a number of occasions, beginning when he was cast in the hit television series. I was like, 'Come on, guys! They're never going to put me in the role of the young lead,'" he recalled.

Robot" panel at SDCC on Thursday kicked off in a very "Mr. The message touting the "rebirth of society" was ominous enough, in fact, that it made a baby in the audience cry while it played. But the intro marked one of the very few serious moments of the presentation. Which made for an interesting break from the subject matter of the series itself. Robot" cast members Carly Chaikin, Christian Slater, Rami Malek, Portia Doubleday and Grace Gummer took to the stage to discuss the show, and their second season (which kicked off recently). Although the presentation concluded with a showing of a scene from next week's episode (it involved a game of chess), the panel itself remained mostly spoiler free. But despite being cursed with the often not-so-exciting task of presenting a panel at Comic-Con while in the middle of the season, the attendees didn't mind. If the cheering from the audience was any indication, "Mr.