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Civilization VII team at Firaxis Games faces layoffs

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-13 07:35:35

Firaxis Games, the studio that developed Civilization VII, is undergoing layoffs. The news went public when a former employee took to LinkedIn to announce her unemployment; Game Developer picked the story up, and publisher 2K Games soon confirmed it. "We can confirm there was a staff reduction today at Firaxis Games, as the studio restructures and optimizes its development process for adaptability, collaboration, and creativity," a spokesperson wrote to multiple news outlets. The company did no

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People Are Backflipping Off of Waymo’s Robotaxis

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-13 23:30:17

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, at one point, began doing backflips 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 happene

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People Are Back-Flipping Off of Waymo’s Robotaxis

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-14 19:30:17

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

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This Already-Approved Drug Could Stop Food Allergies’ Worst Reactions

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-12-05 05:00:01

Food allergies suck. Beyond placing onerous limits on your diet, their health impacts can totally derail your life, and scientists have been scrambling for years to try and find better, more lasting treatments for these conditions’ worst effects. Now, a pair of papers published today in the journal Science unlock crucial new insights into what goes on in the body when anaphylaxis occurs and indicate how an existing medication could one day help prevent these life-threatening allergic reactions.

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Tesla Investors Are Suing Elon Musk Over His Disastrous Robotaxi Debut

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-10 15:08:43

Tesla shareholders have sued CEO Elon Musk and his carmaker as part of a proposed class action lawsuit, claiming that the billionaire had hidden significant risk with the company's robotaxis. As Reuters reports, the lawsuit charges that Tesla's failure to clarify the risks amounts to securities fraud. It's a major escalation, highlighting significant discontent, even among its own investors, with the way the EV maker's early testing of its long-awaited autonomous ride-hailing service has panne

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Lyft and Baidu plan to bring their robotaxis to the UK and Germany next year

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-14 05:21:33

Lyft and Baidu have shed more light on their plan for a worldwide fleet of autonomous vehicles . After the first rollouts — which are earmarked for Asia and the Middle East later this year — the companies have their designs set on Europe. They're aiming to deploy robotaxis in the UK and Germany in 2026, as long as they get approval from regulators. The goal is to then expand the European fleet to thousands of vehicles across the continent in the following years. Baidu is using its sixth-generat

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How to configure X11 in a simple way

news.ycombinator.com Eugene Andrienko 2025-12-29 20:02:37

Speaking about xrandr . I tried some GUI applications, like arandr, to switch between various multimonitor configurations — but found that they all are using just a limited subset of xrandr features. For example, I can't use mixed DPI settings or scale some outputs with arandr, but I can do it with xrandr: https://mas.to/@evgandr/114394277310057344. Yes, the X can do that! The well-known rumors (usually spreaded by Wayland fans) that only Wayland can do such things — looks like a fake. There a

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Show HN: A rudimentary game engine to build four dimensional VR evironments

news.ycombinator.com Info Brainpaingames.Com 2026-01-05 12:23:33

Hypershack Hypershack is a standalone, private space designed for tinkering and learning with 4D objects in Virtual Reality. There are some elements designed to help get oriented in the 4d world: there are small particles falling down, i.e. moving towards negative y-axis. The speed they are falling depends on the orientation of the observed 3d space in the 4d world, the closer the 3d space is aligned with y-axis, the faster the particles fall. If you rotate the 3d space to be perpendicular to

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Uber inks six-year robotaxi deal with Lucid, invests $300 million in EV company

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-01-16 05:42:48

Uber on Thursday announced a partnership to deploy more than 20,000 robotaxis over the next six years as demand for driverless cars kicks into high gear. As part of the partnership, the ride-hailing company is teaming up with Lucid , the electric vehicle maker, and Nuro, an autonomous vehicle startup. Under the agreement, Uber will invest $300 million in Lucid. Nuro will develop the self-driving technology that Lucid will use to supply Uber with robotaxis over the course of the deal and receive

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AI leadership development platform Praxis Labs sells to Torch

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2026-01-25 10:00:00

Praxis Labs, a learning development platform, announced its acquisition on Thursday for an undisclosed amount by the leadership and coaching enterprise Torch. “As a small company with fewer than 20 people serving companies as large as Amazon, we knew we needed to build powerful partnerships, across product and go-to-market, to reach more companies,” co-founder and CEO of Praxis Labs, Elise Smith, told TechCrunch about the reason for the sale. She and her co-founder, Heather Shen, met Torch CEO

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India’s Max Financial says hacker accessed customer data from its insurance unit

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2026-02-14 00:18:39

In Brief Max Financial Services on Wednesday said its insurance subsidiary Axis Max Life Insurance received communication from an anonymous sender about unauthorized access to its customer data. Without disclosing specifics, the Noida-based financial services company said in its stock exchange filing that Axis Max Life Insurance subsequently initiated an information security assessment and data log analysis. “A detailed investigation is also underway in consultation with information security

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Government Alarmed by Videos of Tesla Robotaxis Immediately Breaking Road Laws

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-02 10:10:24

Tesla is already in hot water over its Robotaxi rollout in Austin. As Bloomberg reports, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) contacted Tesla just a single day after its Robotaxi launch over apparent traffic violations captured on video and posted to social media. Since Sunday, the Elon Musk-owned electric carmaker has been offering autonomous rides, albeit with a human safety monitor, to a select few individuals willing to pay for the novelty. As videos taken in the wake

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Tesla’s robotaxis have already caught the attention of federal safety regulators

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2026-03-04 10:44:39

Federal safety regulators have reached out to Tesla a day after the automaker began providing rides in its branded robotaxis in Austin. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration contacted Tesla after numerous videos posted online appear to show Tesla robotaxis violating traffic laws in South Austin, where the company is providing rides to invited customers. Bloomberg was the first to report that NHTSA reached out to Tesla. NHTSA confirmed to TechCrunch that is has contacted the au

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Tesla Just Admitted Something Wildly Embarrassing About What'll Be in the Front Seat of All Its Robotaxis

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-07 00:06:18

Tesla is poised to finally launch its long-awaited robotaxi service this weekend in Austin, Texas. But there's a huge, embarrassing catch. As Electrek reports, the self-driving cabs will have a human "safety monitor" plunked in the front passenger seat — a far cry from Elon Musk's bold promise that his automaker would be hosting unsupervised rides this summer. The hilarious admission was disclosed in the recent invitations Tesla sent out to those interested in participating in the robotaxi ser

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Amazon's Zoox boosts robotaxi production ahead of first commercial launch in Las Vegas

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2026-03-12 22:21:25

Amazon's Zoox robotaxi unit is ramping up vehicle production at a new facility in Hayward, California. Amazon -owned autonomous vehicle startup Zoox on Wednesday opened a sprawling new manufacturing facility in the San Francisco Bay Area, paving the way for more robotaxi production as it plans a commercial rollout of its fleet later this year. The company will use the site in Hayward, California, to increase its robotaxi fleet significantly. The facility is currently producing one robotaxi per

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Zoox's New Manufacturing Facility Can Pump Out 10K Robotaxis a Year

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-12 22:00:02

Table of Contents Zoox's New Manufacturing Facility Can Pump Out 10K Robotaxis a Year As it gears up for its commercial launch, self-driving company Zoox on Wednesday shared that it's opened a 220,000-square-foot serial production facility for its purpose-built robotaxis. Located in Hayward, California, it's deemed to be the first-ever such facility in the US and will allow for the assembly of around 10,000 robotaxis a year. "The number of Zoox robotaxis we produce will grow and scale to match

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Latest Tech News

Civilization VII team at Firaxis Games faces layoffs

People Are Backflipping Off of Waymo’s Robotaxis

People Are Back-Flipping Off of Waymo’s Robotaxis

This Already-Approved Drug Could Stop Food Allergies’ Worst Reactions

Tesla Investors Are Suing Elon Musk Over His Disastrous Robotaxi Debut

Lyft and Baidu plan to bring their robotaxis to the UK and Germany next year

How to configure X11 in a simple way

Show HN: A rudimentary game engine to build four dimensional VR evironments

Uber inks six-year robotaxi deal with Lucid, invests $300 million in EV company

AI leadership development platform Praxis Labs sells to Torch

India’s Max Financial says hacker accessed customer data from its insurance unit

Government Alarmed by Videos of Tesla Robotaxis Immediately Breaking Road Laws

Tesla’s robotaxis have already caught the attention of federal safety regulators

Tesla Just Admitted Something Wildly Embarrassing About What'll Be in the Front Seat of All Its Robotaxis

Amazon's Zoox boosts robotaxi production ahead of first commercial launch in Las Vegas

Zoox's New Manufacturing Facility Can Pump Out 10K Robotaxis a Year

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