November 2022

California regulators on Thursday gave a robotic taxi service the green light to begin charging passengers for driverless rides in San Francisco, a first in a state where dozens of companies have been trying to train vehicles to steer themselves on increasingly congested roads. The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously granted Cruise, a company controlled

While many parents are quick to demonize social media and its adverse effects on people, there are some advantages to being part of it, including community-based notification systems like AMBER Alerts. America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response (AMBER) or AMBER Alerts help notify members of a community if a child has been reported to go missing

Elon Musk is calling Tesla executives back to the office—and using factory workers’ demanding schedules to justify his orders. The Tesla CEO sent out an email on May 31 entitled “Remote work is no longer acceptble (sic)” arguing for the company to succeed, executives needed to be back in Tesla’s main offices. He noted that

Meta is about to shed the last of its old corporate name. The Facebook-parent company announced Tuesday that it will change its stock ticker symbol to “META” prior to the market open on June 9. Meta rebranded from Facebook in October, saying it was part of its ambitions beyond social media. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has specifically been interested in

Skywatchers may be in for a huge treat tonight. The Tau Herculids meteor shower will be visible during the late-night hours of Monday, May 30 into the early morning hours of Tuesday, May 31st. While experts are warning it could be an “all or nothing” event, the Tau Herculids shower has the potential to become a “meteor

Elliptic has become the first blockchain analytics provider to support the Mimblewimble privacy feature on Litecoin. The move will enable regulated businesses to continue to support Litecoin transactions, while remaining compliant with anti-money laundering regulations and sanctions. The Mimblewimble protocol was incorporated into Litecoin last week, and gives  users the option to to send ‘confidential’

Climate change is here to stay unless there’s a concerted, global effort to stop it. But, as it turns out, not all efforts to calm Earth’s sizzling temperatures are created equal. Some might actually end up harming huge swaths of the world’s population in unanticipated ways. In a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications,

Apple may soon release a new set of Mac computers powered by the next generation of its homegrown chip. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the tech giant has started the widespread testing of at least nine Mac models with four different M2 chips, which suggests that Apple is gearing up to launch them. While it’s not supposed to