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Uber is bringing a handful of new water-transport offerings to Europe, including a yacht tour in Ibiza and on-demand boat booking in Venice.
The launches are part of an effort to keep up with high demand from tourists in the continent, the company said in a blog post this week. Demand from international customers for Uber’s mobility services increased last year by up to 55% in places like Greece and Spain, according to U
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Not to humblebrag—okay, maybe just a little—but I first rode in a Google self-driving car in 2013, back when hardly anyone had. The opportunity came as I was researching a Time magazine cover story about Larry Page, Google’s then-CEO. During our interview, he sounded typically impatient as he told me that autonomous driving could have been a thing even a decade before if anyone had put their mind to it.
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The fashion world is at a sudden inflection point. Big luxury players are struggling, e-commerce markets are floundering, and ultrafast players like Shein are disrupting. The Business of Fashion’s Imran Amed takes us inside the tumult, providing a framework to understand the trends and their larger economic impact. Plus, how manufacturers are adapting to new sustainability scrutiny, and the first year of Pharrell Williams’ tenure at Louis Vuitton.
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Piece by piece, Proton is building an alternative to Google Workspace with a more of a focus on privacy.
The latest addition is a document editor with end-to-end encryption. Officially dubbed “Docs in Proton Drive,” the new service looks a lot like Google Docs and supports real-time collaborative editing. It’s free to use with up to 5 GB of storage.
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The Biden administration said Tuesday that it was providing $504 million in implementation grants for a dozen technology hubs in Ohio, Montana, Nevada and Florida, among other locations.
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California lawmakers are considering legislation that would require artificial intelligence companies to test their systems and add safety measures so they can’t be potentially manipulated to wipe out the state’s electric grid or help build chemical weapons — scenarios
A federal judge on Monday blocked Mississippi from enforcing a new law that requires users of social media platforms to verify their ages and restricts access by minors to their sites if they lack parental consent, saying it was likely unconstitutional.
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NASA recently held its annual exercise to game out next steps if an asteroid or other astronomical body is on a threatening course with Earth—a mission seen as the agency’s top priority by 60% of Americans.&nb