Apple has once again taken a shot at Google with a giant billboard next to its rival's smart neighbourhood reading'we're in the business of staying out of yours'. The firm placed the advert, which also says'Privacy. It is not the first time the firm has made thinly-veiled dig at its rivals, with a similar billboard appearing at CES in Las Vegas earlier this year. This one read'What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone'. Sidewalk Labs hope to revitalise a run-down stretch of Toronto's waterfront, with self-driving taxis, pavements that automatically melt away snow and traffic lights that track pedestrian movements.

In science news around the world, Congress approves a "right to try" bill giving patients with life-threatening illnesses a new means to obtain experimental treatments, a measure that President Donald Trump is expected to sign. A Swedish court blocks plans for a controversial new headquarters building for the Nobel Foundation on central Stockholm's waterfront, saying the design would harm the waterfront's historic character. NASA's Curiosity rover is once again sampling rocks after engineers found a new way to use a drill on its robotic arm that stopped operating properly in late 2016. The world's most sensitive dark matter detector fails to snare its quarry during a year of observations. A new package of instruments arrives at the International Space Station to help scientists study record-low temperatures and look for novel quantum effects.

Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs will develop a futuristic, billion-dollar community along a sizable swathe of Toronto's waterfront. On Wednesday, the City of Toronto and Sidewalk Labs -- which is the urban innovation arm of Google's parent company Alphabet -- announced a partnership to radically re-imagine 800 acres of the city's largely vacant, post-industrial Eastern Waterfront, and turn it into a tech-integrated neighborhood called Quayside. SEE ALSO: Balloons may be Puerto Rico's best chance for communication Sidewalk Labs released a 196-page document brimming with the company's extensive ideas, including high-speed ferries, parks that can be adapted to the seasons, and robotic waste removal vehicles. Sidewalk Lab's plan to fuse smart urban planning with technology is still just a visionary document, but if realized, would likely benefit both the company and Toronto. Sidewalk Labs doesn't get any ownership of the neighborhood, but gets a massive slab of land to deploy its innovative urban experiment.

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