Waymo and Uber have launched a robotaxi service in Atlanta, allowing users to book autonomous rides through the Uber app across a 65-square-mile area. They will not yet travel on highways or to the airport. The vehicles feature Waymo’s driverless technology, known as the Waymo Driver, integrated into battery electric Read more…
A ship that caught fire in the Pacific Ocean earlier this month has sunk. The vessel was abandoned in the middle of the pacific — about 360 miles from land — after a blaze. It was carrying about 3,000 vehicles of which about 800 were EVs. Damage caused by the Read more…
Hackers suspected of working on behalf of the Chinese government exploited a maximum-severity vulnerability, which had received a patch 16 months earlier, to compromise a telecommunications provider in Canada, officials from that country and the US said Monday. The Cyber Centre is aware of malicious cyber activities currently targeting Canadian Read more…
The number of doctoral graduates globally has grown steadily over recent decades, creating a massive imbalance between PhD holders and available academic positions. Among the 38 OECD countries, new doctorate holders almost doubled between 1998 and 2017. China’s doctoral enrollment has exploded from around 300,000 students in 2013 to more Read more…
In a podcast interview with The Verge’s Nilay Patel, Hinge CEO Justin McLeod described integrating AI into dating apps as promising but warned against relying on AI companionship, likening it to “playing with fire” and consuming “junk food,” potentially exacerbating the loneliness epidemic. He emphasized Hinge’s mission to foster genuine Read more…
China installed its highest solar power capacity for a single month in May, according to official data, which showed mind-boggling figures that the country installed more solar capacity in a month than any other nation did for the entire 2024. With 93 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity installed in May, Read more…
Goldman Sachs has officially rolled out a generative AI assistant across the company to enhance productivity, with around 10,000 employees already using it for tasks like summarizing documents and data analysis. With the AI tool’s official company-wide launch, Goldman joins a long list of big banks already leveraging the technology Read more…