A crowd vandalized and set fire to a Waymo self-driving car using a firework in San Francisco on Saturday, the Alphabet-owned company and authorities said, marking the most destructive attack so far on driverless vehicles in the U.S.
On Saturday night, a crowd surrounded a white sport utility vehicle that was moving along a street in the city’s Chinatown district, a company spokesperson said.
Michael Vandi, a witness who posted videos of the incident, told
Joby Aviation is one step closer to becoming the Uber of the air. The California-based air-taxi company announced Sunday that it has signed an agreement with the Dubai government to begin operating air taxis in the United Arab Emirates in 2026, with some operations beginning as early as next year. If it can hit this goal, Joby and the UAE will be able to boast the first regularly operating air-taxi service in the world.
Joby has hit several milestones recently. Back in 2021, it show
In January 2007, when Steve Jobs introduced the first-ever iPhone, just 3% of Americans owned a smartphone. Within a decade that number had skyrocketed to more than 80%.
This widespread adoption changed everything. Smartphones put all the world’s knowledge in our pockets. They fostered social platforms and fomented revolutions. And they shortened our attention spans.
In 2015 Microsoft announced the average human attention span was just eight seconds—shorter t
“Too many pugs in here,” my wife said minutes into Puppy Bowl XX, the 20th iteration of the one of the more brilliant bits of counter programming of the Super Bowl pregame ever imagined.
“Too many puns in here as well,” I reply, and that was before Bark Purdy took the field and the puppy Thomas’s introductory card reveals his relationship with the Union Paw-cific Railroad.
Much like the Super Bowl itself, which had modest beginnings and o
There is now a regular deluge of new studies showing the potential widespread health benefits of GLP-1s, the class of drugs that encompasses diabetes and obesity treatments like Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Ozempic (which contain the active ingredient semaglutide) and Eli Lilly’s Zepbound and Mounjaro (active ingredient tirzepatide). From weight loss in obese patients, to protecting heart and cardiovascular health outcomes, to lowering blood pressure, combating fatty liver disease,
Ed Dwight grew up in segregated 1930s Kansas on a farm on the edge of town. An airfield was within walking distance, and, as a boy, he’d often go to marvel at the planes and gawk at the pilots. Most were flying back from hunting trips and their cabins were messy with blood and empty beers cans on the floor.
“They’d say to me, ‘Hey kid, would you clean my airplane? I’ll give you a dime,'” Dwight, 90, recalls. But when he was 8 or 9, Dwig
The space agency announced Thursday that the 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) chopper named Ingenuity can no longer fly because of rotor blade damage. While it remains upright and in contact with flight controllers, its $85 million mission is officially over, officials said.
Originally intended as a short-term tech demo, Ingenuity logged 72 flights over three years at Mars. It accumulated more than two hours of flight time, traveling 11 miles (18 kilometers). That’s more than 14 times
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