
The robotaxi race is heating up in Austin. A decade after Google’s self-driving car project quietly tested on the city’s streets, a new wave of autonomous vehicle companies is setting up shop. Waymo, now a dominant force in San Francisco, is expanding to the city. Tesla is preparing to debut its long-promised robotaxi. And smalle
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Every year, massive data breaches harm the public. The targets are email service providers, retailers and government agencies that store information about people. Each breach includes sensitive personal information such as credit and debit card numbers, home

President Donald Trump’s idea of a “Golden Dome” missile defense system carries a range of potential strategic dangers for the United States.
Golden Dome is meant to protect the U.S. from ballistic,

Almost every article you’re going to read about Apple’s just-announced iOS 26 operating system for the iPhone is going to focus on its new “Liquid Glass” design.
And don’t get me wrong—that design certainly looks refreshing (and is strangely reminiscent of the wax soda bottle candies I loved as a kid). iOS 26’s Liquid Glass inter
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Major food wholesaler United Natural Foods (UNFI) announced Monday that it experienced “unauthorized activity” on its IT systems, prompting the company to take some services offline while an investigation is underway.
As a leading food distributor, UNFI is the primary supplier to Whole Foods Market, an Amazon subsidiary. Last year the two companies

“At long last, Apple has finally entered the AI race.”
That was the first line in my story about Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2024, almost exactly one year ago from today. After the company announced a bunch of highly personalized AI features last June, Apple seemed poised to finally reap the rewards of its long-time effort to build trust around user data privacy.
At

Waymo vehicles, the self-driving taxis from Google parent company Alphabet, have emerged as a literal flashpoint in the Los Angeles ICE protests, which ramped up heavily over the weekend.
The protests against the president’s immigration crackdown in the city began on Friday, as ICE raids broke out among several majority-Latino neighborhoods

For those who’ve been in the situation where we unlock our phone and start futzing around on our home screen, only to find ourselves looking up at the clock an hour later with a sense of shame and regret, fear not: science has your back, according to research published and presented at the human-computer interaction conference CHI.
Researchers at the University of Washington, Columbia University, and National Yang Min