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People Are Back-Flipping Off of Waymo’s Robotaxis

In a bizarre (or hilarious) late-night episode that underscored public unease with autonomous vehicles, several men climbed onto stalled Waymo robotaxis in San Francisco’s Marina District and began attacking them. They then started sitting and climbing on them, and are one point began doing back flips off the driverless cars while a crowd cheered. City police eventually cleared the scene, but the incident highlights growing tensions over deployments of robotaxis in urban areas. So what happen

Waymo to begin testing at San Jose airport this fall

Waymo partners with Uber to bring robotaxi service to Atlanta and Austin. Alphabet's Waymo unit will begin test-driving robotaxis at its first California-based airport, the company said Thursday. The autonomous car unit has been cleared to begin testing driverless rides at the San José Mineta International Airport in San Jose, California, this fall. Waymo said it plans to offer paid rides at the airport later this year. "With San José at the epicenter of the biggest sporting events of 2026,

Waymo cleared to offer robotaxi rides at San Jose airport

Waymo has been cleared to serve its first airpot in California: San Jose Mineta International. The company announced Thursday that it will start testing its robotaxis there in the coming months, and that it plans to start offering commercial rides by the end of the year. The company has spent years working toward serving airports in its home state. Waymo was going back-and-forth with officials at San Francisco’s airport back in 2023 but was rebuffed. Earlier this year, though, Waymo was granted

Former NASA chief says United States likely to lose second lunar space race

As part of its efforts to shore up NASA's flailing Artemis Program, the Trump administration earlier this year proposed two major changes to the agency's deep space exploration plans. First, in the president's budget request for fiscal year 2026, the White House sought to terminate NASA's costly Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft after the Artemis III mission, the first human landing. And second, to focus on "direct-to-surface" exploration, the White House sought to cancel the Luna

Waymo Is Expanding to Denver and Seattle. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi

Table of Contents Waymo Is Expanding to Denver and Seattle. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the autonomous arm of Google's parent Alphabet, expand into more cities. On Tuesday, Waymo shared it's heading to Denver in the fall "to lay the groundwork for a fully autonomous service in the future." The company is also gearing up to expand to Seattle. This comes after Waymo said in an Aug. 29 blog po

Waymo Is Expanding to Denver, Seattle. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi

Table of Contents Waymo Is Expanding to Denver and Seattle. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the autonomous arm of Google's parent Alphabet, expand into more cities. On Tuesday, Waymo shared it's heading to Denver in the fall "to lay the groundwork for a fully autonomous service in the future." The company is also gearing up to expand to Seattle. This comes after Waymo said in an Aug. 29 blog po

Waymo starts testing in Denver, Seattle in bid to expand robotaxi service across U.S.

Alphabet's Waymo unit will begin test drives of its robotaxis in Denver and Seattle this week, with humans behind the wheel, the company said Tuesday. "We will begin driving manually before validating our technology and operations for fully autonomous services in the future," a company spokesperson said in an email. Waymo announced the tests in blog posts. The autonomous vehicle venture aims to expand its driverless, ride-hailing service across the U.S. after already launching commercial opera

Waymo expands to Denver and Seattle with its Zeekr-made vans

Waymo announced Tuesday that it’s going to bring both of its vehicles — the Jaguar I-Pace SUV and the Zeekr van — to Denver and Seattle starting this week, the latest move in a continued expansion across the United States. The vehicles will be manually driven to start, before the company starts testing its autonomous tech in both cities. Waymo told TechCrunch that it hopes to start offering robotaxi trips in Denver next year and the Seattle metropolitan area “as soon as we’re permitted to do so

Stephen King Insisted ‘The Long Walk’ Audiences Watch Teenage Characters Die

Following decades of false starts from previously-attached directors including George Romero, Frank Darabont, and André Øvredal, a film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1979 novel, The Long Walk finally hits theaters later this month. It’s been a long road gettin’ from there to here, and King recently told the Times of London he had one condition before he allowed his story about a peculiarly vicious walkathon be made into a movie: Its doomed teenage cast must be shown getting shot—none of that Old

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As Apple pushes for automation upgrades, supply chain partners face higher costs

As Apple moves to diversify its manufacturing operations, it appears to be leaning on suppliers to shoulder the costs of automating their assembly lines. Here are the details. The latest collateral effect of Trump’s trade war In an exclusive report today, DigiTimes Asia says that Apple has been doubling down on industrial automation as it shifts away from China manufacturing. The report says that while Apple has always incentivized its suppliers to invest in automation, the company “plans to

Space investing goes mainstream as VCs ditch the rocket science requirements

Five years ago, investor Katelin Holloway made what she calls a “literal moon shot” investment. A founding partner of the generalist venture firm Seven Seven Six admits she and her team had “no clue” what rocket company Stoke Space was talking about when they pitched the firm on its reusable launch technology. “We knew full well we were not the specialist,” she says. Since then, Holloway has also invested in Interlune, a company planning to harvest helium-3 from the moon and sell it back to Ear

Why Runway is eyeing the robotics industry for future revenue growth

Runway has spent the past seven years building visual-generating tools for the creative industry. Now, it sees a new opportunity for its technology: robotics. New York-based Runway is known for its video and photo generation AI world models, or large language models that create a simulated version of the real world. Most recently, the company released Gen-4, its video-generating model, in March and Runway Aleph, its video editing model, in July. As Runway’s world models started to improve — an

Onimusha: Way of the Sword Interview: Resurrecting a Series After 20 Years

Since its arrival on PlayStation 2 in 2001, the Onimusha series has been recognized for blending a mix of Resident Evil-style action horror with historically inspired Japanese samurai combat. Now, after lying dormant for over two decades, players will soon enter Edo-era Kyoto as Musashi Miyamoto, the new wielder of the Oni Gauntlet, in Onimusha: Way of the Sword. At Gamescom 2025, I sat down with Akihito Kadowaki, producer of Onimusha: Way of the Sword, to chat about the upcoming Onimusha game,

Waymo Gets the Green Light to Test in New York City. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi

Table of Contents Waymo Gets the Green Light to Test in New York City. Everything to Know About the Robotaxi Self-driving cars are slowly becoming less sci-fi and more real-world as companies like Waymo, the autonomous arm of Google's parent Alphabet, expand into more cities. On Friday, the city of New York granted Waymo a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in parts of Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn, with a specialist sitting behind the wheel. Waymo arrived on the streets of New York City

A bubble that knows it's a bubble

The four words that precede every crash: “This time is different.” Except this time, the person warning about a bubble is Sam Altman, the CEO most responsible for creating it. When OpenAI’s chief executive warned last week that investors were “overexcited” about AI, markets reacted immediately. Nvidia fell 3.5%, Palantir dropped nearly 10%, and the selloff spread globally. The warning came amid a cascade of seemingly supporting data. That same week, MIT researchers published findings that 95%

MCP Gateway and Registry

MCP Gateway Model Context Protocol gateway & proxy - unify REST, MCP, and A2A with federation, virtual servers, retries, security, and an optional admin UI. ContextForge MCP Gateway is a feature-rich gateway, proxy and MCP Registry that federates MCP and REST services - unifying discovery, auth, rate-limiting, observability, virtual servers, multi-transport protocols, and an optional Admin UI into one clean endpoint for your AI clients. It runs as a fully compliant MCP server, deployable via P

Waymo Gets First Driverless Car Permit in NYC

Waymo has become the first autonomous vehicle operator to secure a permit to test self-driving cars on the streets of New York City, the state’s department of transportation said in announcing the news. The New York City Department of Motor Vehicles approved Waymo’s application, allowing the company to conduct limited testing of its autonomous vehicles within certain city zones. The permit comes after years of regulatory negotiations and signals a potential shift toward broader deployment of d

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Waymo can now test its self-driving vehicles in New York City

Waymo can now test its self-driving cars in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams has announced. Local authorities have granted the company the permit needed to be able to test autonomous vehicles in parts of Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. It's the first-ever permit for the "testing deployment" of AVs the city has granted. Waymo will be able to deploy a fleet with up to eight vehicles in the city until late September 2025. For now, though, the permit only allows Waymo to test its AVs with drivers be

Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City

Waymo is getting one step closer to rides in New York City. The Alphabet autonomous vehicle subsidiary received its first permit from the New York Department of Transportation on Friday to start testing in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday. The rollout is the city's first autonomous vehicle testing launch. Waymo will start testing up to eight vehicles in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn through late September with the potential to extend the program. New York state law requires t

Autonomous Vehicles to Hit the Streets of NYC for the First Time

As if New York’s taxi drivers didn’t get squeezed enough by the Ubers and Lyfts of the world, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Friday that the New York Department of Transportation has granted Google’s autonomous vehicle subsidiary, Waymo, a permit to test its self-driving cars in the city. It’ll be the first fully self-driving car to operate within the city. Waymo will roll out eight vehicles in New York City starting in September, and they will operate in Manhattan and Downtown Bro

YC-backed Oway raises $4M to build a decentralized ‘Uber for freight’

Thousands of semi trucks that cut across the U.S. highway system each day are harboring a secret: they’re only about half full. That inefficiency represents a multi-billion dollar opportunity. And one that a few companies like Uber Freight and Flock Freight are already chasing as part of broader business models that match truck drivers with companies selling goods. San Francisco-based startup Oway is seeking out a narrower business model that more closely resembles Uber for freight, especially

Waymo approved to start autonomous vehicle testing in New York City

Waymo has been granted a permit to test its autonomous vehicles in New York City, the first such approval granted by the city. The company told TechCrunch it plans to start testing “immediately.” The company is allowed to deploy up to eight of its Jaguar I-Pace SUVs in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn through late September. Waymo’s vehicles must have a trained safety operator in the driver’s seat, with at least one hand on the wheel at all times. The company cannot pick up passengers (since it

Waymo granted first permit to begin testing autonomous vehicles in New York City

Waymo is getting one step closer to rides in New York City. The Alphabet autonomous vehicle subsidiary received its first permit from the New York Department of Transportation on Friday to start testing in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday. The rollout is the city's first autonomous vehicle testing launch. Waymo will start testing eight vehicles in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn through late September with the potential to extend the program. New York state law requires the com

Sean Gunn Wants You to Think Maxwell Lord Is Part of the (Justice) Gang

In a conversation with the Reel Rejects, actor Sean Gunn discussed his role as Maxwell Lord as a connective thread between Superman and Peacemaker. Portraying the megabucks metahuman investor as someone who wants to work alongside metahumans is key to Gunn, and his take is to make sure he’s in the know of the choices being made, from outfits to the mural in the Hall of Justice. “There’s no way that somebody in charge like that wouldn’t be aware of what’s going on, and we can tell,” he shared.

Best Options for Using AI in Chip Design

Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss how and where AI can be applied to chip design to maximize its value, and how that will impact the design process, with Chuck Alpert, Cadence Fellow; Sathish Balasubramanian, head of product marketing and senior director for custom IC at Siemens EDA; Anand Thiruvengadam, senior director and head of AI product management at Synopsys; Sailesh Kumar, CEO of Baya Systems; Mehir Arora, head of engineering at ChipAgents; Daren McClear

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Onimusha: Way of the Sword might be a more forgiving kind of samurai epic

Capcom’s Onimusha series has been on a long hiatus. Combining Resident Evil-style rendered backgrounds with more agile characters, adding in demons, magic and a feudal Japan setting, the series span multiple sequels — and consoles — til the fourth entry in 2006. Roughly two decades (and console eras) later, Capcom has returned to the series, even getting the definitive samurai actor, Tom Cruise Mifune Toshiro, to play the hero, the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. At Gamescom, the company

Onimusha Way of the Sword Hands-On: Back to the Demon-Killing Samurai Grind

It's been 19 years since Capcom released another game progressing the story of its samurai action horror franchise, Onimusha -- but in 2026, Onimusha: Way of the Sword will arrive as the next game in the series. Ahead of Gamescom, Capcom gave US media a preview of the game with a short 15-minute demo, a mere taste to show us where the next game is going in the two decades since the last mainline Onimusha. Onimusha: Way of the Sword continues the franchise's tradition of basing characters on his

Guile bindings for Sway window manager

Guile Swayer I am an Emacs user and previously used StumpWM , an X11 window manager written in Common Lisp . I believe window managers should be scriptable because the level of workflow customization required by users often exceeds what can be achieved with simple configuration parameters (see my workflow below for a clearer understanding of why this is the case). Unfortunately, Sway/i3 lacks a straightforward programmable interface for customization. This project provides complete control over

The 15 Best Golf Gifts for Every Kind of Golfer (2024)

Why do we golf? We may never get good at it, and even when we cross some self-imposed pinnacle of proficiency we face near-infinite new challenges and a good chance of the dreaded backslide. Yet once you catch the bug, driven by the euphoria of the perfect shot and the temperance to conquer your own emotions, you're hooked for life. The good news is there's an ever-evolving bounty of gear and gadgets offering new ways to improve, enrich, and enhance the game we hate to love. To help you hone yo

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Running Wayland Clients as Non-Root Users on Yocto

Many embedded Linux systems use a Wayland compositor like Weston for window management. Qt applications act as Wayland clients. Weston composes the windows of the Qt applications into a single window and displays it on a screen. I still have to find a Yocto layer that does not start Qt applications as root. This violates the cybersecurity principle that every application should only run with the least privileges possible. Let us figure out how to run Qt applications as non-root users and make ou